Too Much To Grasp

Author : Andrea D. Saner
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575063980

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“Too Much to Grasp” by Andrea D. Saner Pdf

Few phrases in Scripture have occasioned as much discussion as has the “I am who I am” of Exodus 3:14. What does this phrase mean? How does it relate to the divine name, YHWH? Is it an answer to Moses’ question (v. 13), or an evasion of an answer? The trend in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarly interpretations of this verse was to superimpose later Christian interpretations, which built on Greek and Latin translations, on the Hebrew text. According to such views, the text presents an etymology of the divine name that suggests God’s active presence with Israel or what God will accomplish for Israel; the text does not address the nature or being of God. However, this trend presents challenges to theological interpretation, which seeks to consider critically the value pre-modern Christian readings have for faithful appropriations of Scripture today. In “Too Much to Grasp”: Exodus 3:13?15 and the Reality of God, Andrea Saner argues for an alternative way forward for twenty-first century readings of the passage, using Augustine of Hippo as representative of the misunderstood interpretive tradition. Read within the literary contexts of the received form of the book of Exodus and the Pentateuch as a whole, the literal sense of Exodus 3:13–15 addresses both who God is as well as God’s action. The “I am who I am” of v. 14a expresses indefiniteness; while God reveals himself as YHWH and offers this name for the Israelites to call upon him, God is not exhausted by this revelation but rather remains beyond human comprehension and control.

Author : Andrea D. Saner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575063972

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"Too Much to Grasp" by Andrea D. Saner Pdf

Few phrases in Scripture have occasioned as much discussion as has the "I am who I am" of Exodus 3:14. What does this phrase mean? How does it relate to the divine name, YHWH? Is it an answer to Moses' question (v. 13), or an evasion of an answer? The trend in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarly interpretations of this verse was to superimpose later Christian interpretations, which built on Greek and Latin translations, on the Hebrew text. According to such views, the text presents an etymology of the divine name that suggests God's active presence with Israel or what God will accomplish for Israel; the text does not address the nature or being of God. However, this trend presents challenges to theological interpretation, which seeks to consider critically the value pre-modern Christian readings have for faithful appropriations of Scripture today. In "Too Much to Grasp" Exodus 3:13?15 and the Reality of God, Andrea Saner argues for an alternative way forward for twenty-first century readings of the passage, using Augustine of Hippo as representative of the misunderstood interpretive tradition. Read within the literary contexts of the received form of the book of Exodus and the Pentateuch as a whole, the literal sense of Exodus 3:13-15 addresses both who God is as well as God's action. The "I am who I am" of v. 14a expresses indefiniteness; while God reveals himself as YHWH and offers this name for the Israelites to call upon him, God is not exhausted by this revelation but rather remains beyond human comprehension and control.

Author : Richard Werbner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253018953

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Divination's Grasp by Richard Werbner Pdf

“A work of rare depth and profound insight that is destined to become a classic in African Studies and the anthropology of religion.” —Paul Stoller, author of Yaya’s Story: The Quest for Well-Being in the World Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner’s skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting. “Werbner’s Divination’s Grasp documents a long and distinguished career in the service of anthropology. It will be a touchstone for anthropological studies of divination for years to come.” —American Ethnologist “Richard Werbner’s superb account of moral imagination and the poetics of divination grasps the density of its subject, matching the insights of the diviner with those of the ethnographer. The book takes its place among the very best works of Africanist anthropology as a new classic in the tradition of ethnographic divination and a necessary reminder of live and deep traditions of African wisdom.” —Michael Lambek, University of Toronto Scarborough

Author : Jean Piaget
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317524830

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The Grasp of Consciousness (Psychology Revivals) by Jean Piaget Pdf

Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the general stage in a child’s development that comes between his successful performance of an activity without knowing how he did it – that is, what he had to do in order to succeed – and the times when he becomes aware of what went into that action. The book reports the results of experiments conducted at the Centre of Genetic Epistemology. Children, ranging in age between four and adolescence, were asked to perform such tasks as walking on all fours, playing tiddlywinks, building a ramp for a toy car. They were then asked to explain how they had performed the task, and in some cases, to instruct the interviewer. Their answers show a number of surprising inaccuracies in the child’s ability to grasp the nature of what he has done. Taking a broad view of his results, Piaget shows that they reveal several stages in the gradual development of the child’s conceptualization of his actions. In analysing each stage, Piaget argues that the child’s concept of his own action cannot be considered a simple matter of ‘enlightenment’, but must actively be reconstructed from his experience. This view has always been at the core of Piaget’s work, and a new area of the child’s mental world is here given definitive treatment.

Author : Sanjay Sarma,Luke Yoquinto
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780385541831

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Grasp by Sanjay Sarma,Luke Yoquinto Pdf

How do we learn? And how can we learn better? In this groundbreaking look at the science of learning, Sanjay Sarma, head of Open Learning at MIT, shows how we can harness this knowledge to discover our true potential. Drawing from his own experience as an educator as well as the work of researchers and innovators at MIT and beyond, in Grasp, Sarma explores the history of modern education, tracing the way in which traditional classroom methods—lecture, homework, test, repeat—became the norm and showing why things needs to change. The book takes readers across multiple frontiers, from fundamental neuroscience to cognitive psychology and beyond, as it considers the future of learning. It introduces scientists who study forgetting, exposing it not as a simple failure of memory but as a critical weapon in our learning arsenal. It examines the role curiosity plays in promoting a state of “readiness to learn” in the brain (and its troublesome twin, “unreadiness to learn”). And it reveals how such ideas are being put into practice in the real world, such as at unorthodox new programs like Ad Astra, located on the SpaceX campus. Along the way, Grasp debunks long-held views such as the noxious idea of “learning styles,” equipping readers with practical tools for absorbing and retaining information across a lifetime of learning.

Author : Joan Tollifson
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626257542

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Nothing to Grasp by Joan Tollifson Pdf

This book points relentlessly to what is most obvious and impossible to avoid: the ever-present, ever-changing, nonconceptual actuality of the present moment that is effortlessly presenting itself right now. This book is an invitation to wake up from commonplace misconceptions and to see through the imaginary separate self at the root of our human suffering and confusion. Nothing to Grasp is a celebration of what is, exactly as it is.

Author : Rick Evans
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781543464030

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Loosening Ego’S Grasp by Rick Evans Pdf

Fred is a forty-two-year-old North American who stumbles into a spiritual process that changes his life. He comes to see that his drive for sex is one of the inner demons he needs to face. Can he find the value, connection, and love hes searching for within himself? Or will he keep looking for those qualities out there? His process takes him on a journey to loosen egos grasp.

Author : Jennifer Wingert
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101157534

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Grasp the Stars by Jennifer Wingert Pdf

Pursued by members of every species, Meris-the most ancient and legendary of the Jadamiin-is a stowaway on a ship bound for the Port Earth space station. But the pursuit isn't over-and suddenly Port Earth is embroiled in high level intrigue that could annihilate the entire station.

Author : Sanjay Sarma,Luke Yoquinto
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101974155

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Grasp by Sanjay Sarma,Luke Yoquinto Pdf

How do we learn? And how can we learn better? In this groundbreaking look at the science of learning, Sanjay Sarma, head of Open Learning at MIT, shows how we can harness this knowledge to discover our true potential. Drawing from his own experience as an educator as well as the work of researchers and innovators at MIT and beyond, in Grasp, Sarma explores the history of modern education, tracing the way in which traditional classroom methods—lecture, homework, test, repeat—became the norm and showing why things needs to change. The book takes readers across multiple frontiers, from fundamental neuroscience to cognitive psychology and beyond, as it considers the future of learning. It introduces scientists who study forgetting, exposing it not as a simple failure of memory but as a critical weapon in our learning arsenal. It examines the role curiosity plays in promoting a state of “readiness to learn” in the brain (and its troublesome twin, “unreadiness to learn”). And it reveals how such ideas are being put into practice in the real world, such as at unorthodox new programs like Ad Astra, located on the SpaceX campus. Along the way, Grasp debunks long-held views such as the noxious idea of “learning styles,” equipping readers with practical tools for absorbing and retaining information across a lifetime of learning.

Author : Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429942379

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Beyond America's Grasp by Stephen P. Cohen Pdf

AN INCISIVE "WHITE PAPER" ON THE UNITED STATES'S STRUGGLE TO FRAME A COHERENT MIDDLE EAST POLICY In this book, the Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S. policy in the region back to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, when the Great Powers failed to take crucial steps to secure peace there. He sees in that early diplomatic failure a pattern shaping the conflicts since then—and America's role in them. A century ago, there emerged two dominant views regarding the uses of America's newfound power. Woodrow Wilson urged America to promote national freedom and self-determination through the League of Nations—in stark contrast to his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt, who had advocated a vigorous foreign policy based on national self-interest. Cohen argues that this running conflict has hobbled American dealings in the Middle East ever since. In concise, pointed chapters, he shows how different Middle East countries have struggled to define themselves in the face of America's stated idealism and its actual realpolitik. This conflict came to a head in the confused, clumsy Middle East policy of George W. Bush—but Cohen suggests the ways a greater awareness of our history in the region might enable our present leaders to act more sensibly.

Author : Katrin Wolf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319139814

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Grasp Interaction with Tablets by Katrin Wolf Pdf

This book presents guidelines for a future device type: a tablet that allows ergonomic front- and back-of-device interaction. These guidelines help designers and developers of user interfaces to build ergonomic applications for tablet devices, in particular for devices that enable back-of-device interaction. In addition, manufacturers of tablet devices obtain arguments that back-of-device interaction is a promising extension of the interaction design space and results in increased input capabilities, enriched design possibilities, and proven usability. The guidelines are derived from empirical studies and developed to fit the users’ skills to the way the novel device type is held. Three particular research areas that are relevant to develop design guidelines for tablet interaction are investigated: ergonomic gestures, interaction areas, and pointing techniques.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : David Wright
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780981284101

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Within Grasp by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jack Gauntlett
Publisher : Janus Publishing Company Lim
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781857566819

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To Grasp a Shadow by Jack Gauntlett Pdf

Events during both the Second World War and the cold war unfurl to reveal an intricate and dangerous web of espionage and romance in this fast-paced thriller that gives insight into the murky world of intelligence and counter-intelligence agencies. After Ronal Cameron leaves his simple candle-making and provisioning business for a visit to Russia, he mysteriously disappears, leaving his lover, Nina, and her friend, Rachel. Cameron' s wartime job as a Navy technologist has caught up with him, and when he finally returns to his home in Britain, he finds his life complicated in the most unexpected of ways.

Author : Barton Biggs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470604540

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A Hedge Fund Tale of Reach and Grasp by Barton Biggs Pdf

Financial legend Barton Biggs' fictional account of the hedge world and the broader workings of Wall Street Barton Biggs' latest book is an inspirational rags to riches story of drive and financial talent. Told through the eyes of a fictional insider, this engaging story provides a detailed look at the hedge fund business in the late 1990s and through the first decade of the twenty-first century. A Tale From the Hedge Fund World chronicles the life of a poor boy who ends up amassing more wealth than he ever thought possible. From studying Wall Street charts while sitting on the sidelines of football practice to realizing how so much money can be made in a short period of time, this book provides a bird's eye view of the inner workings of Wall Street and what it takes to make it there. Puts the word of hedge funds in perspective and reveals the competitive and lucrative nature of this field Other titles by Biggs: Hedgehogging and Wealth, War & Wisdom Also describes the bursting of the mortgage bubble and the great financial crisis that followed No one knows more about the hedge fund world of the past twenty years than Barton Biggs. His new fable offers an entertaining look at this field and those who aspire to excel within it.

Author : D.H. Clark,I.B. Long
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475954921

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A Grasp for Life by D.H. Clark,I.B. Long Pdf

A grasp for life is a fictional story of a boy and his siblings taken from their home to live in an orphans home. It tells of the stuggles as a young man's journey to find the family that he was taken from,only to find life is not as simple as he had imagined it would be. Born in a poor family, they had their problems of raising four boys and a girl as Life gets away from them when the State is called in and takes the Walker children to an orphans home, then to several foster homes. It takes you on many mistakes made in the name of finding love as he finds love,loses love,slips in his grasp for life. The book may resemble many of the readers own lives. It could be your life. BEWARE!