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Inscribing the Past
Authors: Pioske Daniel 
Published: June 2024

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This study investigates the conditions of knowledge that made the narratives within the books of Kings possible. This chapter, then, focuses on the underlying modes of knowing in antiquity that contributed to the pasts that the books of Kings depict. This manner of study brings to light several findings. It illuminates recent investigations into the practices of ancient Hebrew scribes. It also highlights the information that these individuals drew on to tell the stories that they did. As this chapter demonstrates, this information has been increasingly linked to forms of knowledge that are generated through the mechanisms and resources of memory.
Solomon’s Temple in the Books of Kings
Authors: Dubovský Peter 
Published: June 2024

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This chapter studies three dimensions of Solomon’s temple and the biblical narrative about the temple that is presented in the books of Kings. First, the chapter includes an exploration of various theories for and against the historicity of the temple in Jerusalem. This exploration entails a review of the temple’s attribution to Solomon. Second, the chapter investigates the literary presentation of the temple narrative that is presented in 1 Kgs 6–8. This analysis focuses in particular on the structure, literary devices, and meaning of the temple narrative. Finally, the chapter presents a study of the theology and symbolism of Solomon’s temple.
Cult Centralization in the Books of Kings
Authors: Richelle Matthieu 
Published: June 2024

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The books of Kings claim that the worship of Yhwh should have been centralized at Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem and that, for most of their history, Israel and Judah did not conform to that principle. This chapter shows that cult centralization is a major theme of Kings indeed. It also discusses the possible origins of this religious principle and the hypotheses concerning its rationale. But Kings also claims that two kings, Hezekiah and Josiah, made religious reforms based on cult centralization. This chapter introduces the reader to the debate about the historicity of these reforms, which involves both the literary analysis of the relevant passages of Kings and the interpretation of potential archaeological evidence.
Davidic Covenant and Dynasty in the Books of Kings
Authors: Rückl Jan 
Published: June 2024

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The chapter overviews the references to the Davidic dynastic promise in the books of Kings. Second Samuel 7 is an attempt to defend the political interests of the Davidic family in the exilic or postexilic period. Most of the references to the promise in Kings are entirely compatible with this function of Nathan’s oracle and may come from the same hand. According to Kings, the success of a royal dynasty depends on the piety of the dynasty’s founder, and the fate of the Davidic dynasty cannot be the same as that of the other dynasties that reigned in Israel. This concept is integral to the basic structure of Kings, and the author of these texts is therefore also the first author of Kings. The conditional formulations of the Davidic promise were inserted by a later redactor.
The Reception of the Books of Kings in the Church Fathers
Authors: Burnet Régis 
Published: June 2024

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This chapter provides an overview of the different ways early Christian writers up to the seventh century CE used or referred to the books of Kings in commentaries, catena, and other works. It then discusses what kinds of exegesis these authors practiced when interpreting these books and what specific passages attracted their attention. Interestingly, these are often not the same passages that are of interest to modern readers. While the books of Kings are not among the works these ancient authors quote the most, they represent a touchstone for their hermeneutics. Compared to commentary for other books of the Bible, commenting on these books requires making a choice among typological, historical, and moral readings.
African Readings of the Books of Kings
Authors: Koulagna Jean 
Published: June 2024

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Bible reading in Africa follows several trajectories. It is situated between scholarly approaches and confessional and popular ones, between historical-critical approaches and political and ideological ones. Despite the difficulty in establishing an exhaustive inventory of African scholarship on the books of Kings, it is globally located in these different methodological crossroads. Historical-critical and literary approaches often respond to the need to affirm a certain scientific approach, while confessional and popular concerns are more oriented toward comparative and cultural issues or above all political and ideological positioning. This is what we see in the retelling of the story of the Queen of Sheba in the Ethiopian legend of the Kebra Nagaśt but also and above all in the numerous studies devoted to Naboth’s vineyard in the context of the struggle for land.
Academic Research on Kings in China
Authors: Lee Lydia 
Published: June 2024

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This chapter discusses mainland Chinese academic research on the books of Kings since 1980s. Mainland Chinese scholarly engagement with the books of Kings epitomizes the evolution of the country’s biblical research. This evolution can be divided into three main phases. In the first phase, the biblical content is simply paraphrased and summarized. In the second phase, archaeological data are incorporated to enrich research on the biblical texts. The third phase is characterized by a more diversified approach to the cultural influences that have shaped and have been shaped by the Kings’ narratives. By tracing the general path of this research development, this chapter aims to stimulate mutual understanding and further conversations between the Chinese and international research communities on biblical studies.
Locating Women and the Expansion of Islamic Morality in the New Turkey
Authors: Sehlikoglu Sertaç , Kütük-Kuriş Merve 
Published: June 2024

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This chapter discusses the formation of new Muslim female selves in New Turkey. Drawing on Sehlikoglu and Kütük-Kuriş’s separate longitudinal field research conducted in Istanbul since the early 2000s, this chapter explores how Muslim women navigate the political and socioeconomic transformations that Turkey underwent during the AKP rule. It critically engages with the existing literature on Muslim women that adopts limited tropes, overlooking the intricate ways in which Muslim women’s desire for agentive, consumerist, and entrepreneurial lifestyles complicates notions of modernity and extends the boundaries of Islamic orthodoxy. The chapter focuses on Muslim women’s aspirations in the realms of leisure, highlighting how they propose diverse and contested interpretations within the realm of Islamic morality. While recognizing that these performances do not necessarily align with the dominant feminist clusters, we centralize women’s own interpretations which complicate the underlying thesis of gendered Islam. We contribute to the literature on Muslim women’s subjectivity and resonate with anthropological and sociological scholarship on Muslim geographies worldwide, underscoring the fluidity, multiplicity, and multifaceted aspect of self-making in the lives of Muslim women.
Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation for Bridging the Micro–Macro Divide in Management Science
Authors: Wall Friederike , Chen Shu-Heng , Leitner Stephan 
Published: June 2024

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In recent decades, management science has witnessed increasing interest in the reciprocal mechanisms between micro-level behaviours and macro-level patterns. At the same time, there are calls to bridge the field’s multidimensional divide in subdomains, theoretical foundations, or research methods that often address either the micro or macro level. The introductory chapter of the Handbook of Agent-based Computational Management Science outlines how the agent-based paradigm contributes to bridging the micro–macro divide in management science. For this, we build on the framework of causal mechanisms of Coleman’s boat. The dynamic variant of the framework, proposed in the philosophy of social science, allows for capturing the reciprocal connections between the micro and macro levels and translates into the agent-based paradigm and its generative approach. For the novice in agent-based modelling and simulation, we briefly outline some more ‘technical’ aspects. Finally, we provide a brief overview of the chapters in the handbook, organized into four parts as there are (1) the microfoundations of agent-based models in management, agent-based modelling and simulation for (2) theory building in management and (3) for operational issues in management, followed by some overarching, and (4) reflections and extensions.
Geoeconomics, Varieties of Capitalism, and Great Power Competition
Authors: Dombrowski Peter 
Published: June 2024

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The current and future successes and failures of this era’s great powers—the United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Russia—can be traced back to the domestic political economy of each contender. The three great powers all rely on capitalist economic arrangements operating within a global market economy. But capitalism comes in a variety of forms ranging from the Anglo-American neoliberal model to state or even “party” capitalism as practiced in Russia and China. Each great power thus relies on different domestic political and economic institutions as well as legitimating ideologies to generate usable power within the global system. To illustrate the impact of distinct varieties of capitalism on great power competition, this chapter analyzes how each great power meets the most salient contemporary strategic challenge: military modernization.
Assessing Great Power Competition and the Role of Middle Powers in Outer Space through the Lens of Geoeconomics
Authors: Goswami Namrata 
Published: June 2024

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This chapter focuses on the systemic-level effects of geoeconomics on great power competition (specifically, the United States and China). It examines how China’s growing focus on economics, technological innovation, and geography is changing the discourse on outer space, where the interplay of geoeconomics, economic statecraft, and national security is evident in the way nations behave. This changing discourse challenges US leadership in the post–Cold War system, not just from a distribution of capabilities perspective, but also from a cognitive and narrative-shaping perspective. The chapter demonstrates how this system-shaping notion of geoeconomics (grand strategy) is influenced in turn by unit-level decision-making, financial commitments, innovation policies (economic statecraft), and the political economy of national security. The chapter highlights the role of middle powers in shaping the space environment, as their decisions on how economic and technological instruments shape up at their unit levels, in turn, challenge and affect the way geoeconomics is shaping up and playing out at the systemic level of the great powers. The interactive effects of geoeconomics, economic statecraft, and national security are examined through illustrative case studies.
Economic Inclusion of LGBTI+ Persons
Authors: Agko Adem 
Published: June 2024

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Despite legal and social advances, LGBTI+ persons continue to face widespread discrimination and exclusion, which adversely impacts their lives, as well as the communities and economies in which they live. In awareness of this, this chapter seeks to answer whether international economic institutions (IEIs) such as the World Bank, IMF, and OECD are sufficiently promoting the non-discrimination of LGBTI+ persons within their work. This chapter points out that all discussed IEIs play a role, directly or indirectly, in supporting the stability of the international economic system. Yet they also provide public goods that fall outside of their mandates like the promotion of human rights. Findings stipulate that all IEIs, in one way or another, include social considerations within their work that can contribute to the non-discrimination of LGBTI+ persons. However, only two IEIs, namely the World Bank and the OECD engage in direct efforts to eliminate SOGI-based discrimination.
The Syriac Fathers
Authors: Pirtea Adrian C. 
Published: June 2024

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This chapter presents Syriac Christian discussions on deification from the third to the seventh centuries. The first focus is on the earliest discourses, in the Odes of Solomon, the Book of Steps, and the writings of Ephrem the Syrian, Aphrahat, and John the Solitary. The Syriac translations of Greek Alexandrian and Antiochene Patristic works in fifth-century Edessa eventually gave birth to two distinct approaches to deification: the first, mainly influenced by Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, became prominent in the Syro-Orthodox (Miaphysite) Church and found mature expression in the writings of Jacob of Serugh and Philoxenos of Mabbug. The second was further developed at the School of Nisibis and prevailed in the (Dyophysite) Church of the East. The chapter also investigates the role of deification in Late Antique Syriac philosophical discourses, in the reception of Origen and Evagrius, and in seventh-century East Syriac mystical literature.
“Man Became God to the Degree that God Became Man”
Authors: Constas Maximos 
Published: June 2024

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The theology of Maximus the Confessor represents the culmination of Greek patristic thought on deification. For Maximus, deification is not only a correlative of the Incarnation, but also the fundamental theme uniting his cosmology, anthropology, liturgy, ecclesiology, and eschatology. Building on the work of his predecessors, the Confessor develops a systematic principle (known as the tantum-quantum) of reciprocity between God and man, which he uses to express a range of often striking formulations. In addition to being an ontological condition, deification is also a process of transformation. Maximus describes this process through the traditional three stages of spiritual progress, with emphasis on purification, the contemplation of nature and scripture, and experience of ecstasy in which the self is caught up into a divine mode of existence.
The Early Medieval Latin West
Authors: Matz Brian J. 
Published: June 2024

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Deification is a rich concept in the early medieval Latin West. John Scotus Eriugena, strongly influenced by Ps.-Dionysius and Maximus, was quite explicit in his teaching about it. To Eriugena, God brings about deification in the lives of persons. This God accomplishes as an act of grace in these persons to enable them to engage in works of purification to facilitate more easily the transformation of their life that God intends. It is these threads of Eriugena’s thought that run throughout many other, early medieval Latin texts that are not explicit in their recourse to the terminology of deification. This chapter elucidates the theology of deification implicit in the works of Smaragdus, Peter Damian, John of Fécamp, and Anselm of Canterbury. These works point to a “logic of perfection.”
Symeon the New Theologian and Byzantine Monasticism
Authors: Russell Norman 
Published: June 2024

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Symeon’s teaching, based on personal experience, for revelations cannot be acquired by study, is that knowledge of God comes through participation in the life of the Trinity as a result of the acquisition of virtue (especially humility) and the eucharistic encounter with Christ. The practice of the Jesus Prayer is also recommended. Symeon’s locus of authority is the “golden chain” of saints illuminated by God. The ascent to deification is accomplished not through noetic contemplation but through surrender to divine love, by which humans become christs. Deification is an eschatological reality but is also attainable here and now. This aspect of Symeon’s teaching led to accusations of unorthodoxy in his lifetime. How Christians become gods he cannot say, for the awesomeness of participation in the imparticipable overwhelms him. Immediately after his death he fell into obscurity, but his teaching has always remained fundamental to Athonite hesychasm.
Introduction
Authors: Gavrilyuk Paul L. , Hofer Andrew , Levering Matthew 
Published: June 2024

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This introductory chapter consists of twenty-five theses that articulate the rationale behind this Handbook and indicate some of its contributions. Deification studies is a burgeoning field. Often associated solely with the Orthodox East, deification became a central theme in the nineteenth century due to critical work by Ferdinand Christian Baur, followed by Albrecht Ritschl and Adolf von Harnack. Opposed to Baur, Matthias Joseph Scheeben made deification central to his theological vision, as did, at the outset of the twentieth century, Ivan Popov and Juan Arintero. The present volume retrieves the theme of deification in a comprehensive manner from Christian Scripture and the Church Fathers to the present day. It does so in a manner geared toward historical, systematic, ecumenical, and interreligious understanding of this central Christian theme. The chapter offers a constructive working definition of deification, focusing on the most prominent “markers” of deification in Christian theological discourses.
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Anglicans
Authors: McInroy Mark 
Published: June 2024

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Treatments of deification among “Anglicans” in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries stand out as noteworthy for contemporary discussions of the doctrine for four interconnected reasons. First, in these figures one witnesses a sustained articulation of deification in the West, countering the prevalent perception of deification as an exclusively Eastern Christian doctrine. Second, these figures draw their views of deification from patristic figures of both East and West, and more fundamentally from scripture, demonstrating that, for early Anglicans, the doctrine is not of a particularly Eastern provenance. Third, for Richard Hooker and some Cambridge Platonists, deification does not supplant justification (as some contemporary advocates of deification are eager to do), but rather coordinates with justification and sanctification in a coherent soteriological vision. Fourth, for Anglicans, deification has an uncommon ecclesiological importance, as the doctrine plays a central role in distinguishing the English Church from Roman Catholic and “Puritan” alternatives.
Deification and Christology
Authors: Luy David 
Published: June 2024

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Christian doctrines of deification are closely related to theological judgments about the person and work of Christ. Careful analysis of this theological domain reveals a complex picture, for the concepts ingredient to each doctrinal locus are notably plastic. Judgments regarding the precise meaning of theopoiēsis, the metaphysics of the hypostatic union, and the communication of properties within the person of Christ yield a rich diversity of perspectives across the tradition. It is possible to identify any number of different, possible ways to coordinate deification and Christology in relation to one another. These distinct alignments have often provided an occasion for controversy, but it is important to recognize that they are not necessarily contrary to one another from a dogmatic perspective. It is thus possible to articulate a capacious account of deification that affirms multiple alignments together as complementary strands within a unified braid.
Second- and Third-Century Greek Fathers
Authors: Russell Norman 
Published: June 2024

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Justin Martyr uses a testimony source to interpret the “gods” of Psalm 81(82) as Adam and Eve, who had been intended to share in the divine attributes of impassibility and immortality, linking them with the “children of God” of John 3:1. Irenaeus discusses the psalm more in terms of Pauline adoption, emphasizing participation in God through baptism. Clement of Alexandria develops the baptismal theme of filiation but, for him, the moral qualities come to the fore. Origen uses the psalm as biblical testimony that salvation entails the transformation of human nature. He is the first to cite 2 Peter 1:4, bringing a new dynamic element to the concept of participation. Origen regards contemplation as able to move intelligent beings up the ladder of intelligent life to the angels, but insists that deification as an eschatological reality is open to every baptized person.
Athanasius of Alexandria and the Cappadocian Fathers
Authors: Blowers Paul M. 
Published: June 2024

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Greek and Byzantine patristic exponents of deification connected this mystery with salvation, but even more fundamentally with the work of creation itself and the providential economy whereby the triune Creator projects the perfection and transfiguration of the creature. As expounded by Athanasius and the three Cappadocian Fathers, deification integrated the ontological change and new “leavening” of humankind by Christ the New Adam, together with the existential appropriation of this grace through active and full conformation to the divine virtues. Central to Athanasius, Basil, and the two Gregories is the initiative of the Son incarnate and the Holy Spirit to raise the languishing creature out of sin and to usher in the new creature. This chapter traces the unique contributions of the four authors and the important threads which bind their teaching on deification.
Understanding the picture: the promise and challenges of in-situ imagery data in the study of plankton ecology
Authors: Barth Alex , Stone Joshua 
Published: June 2024

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Planktons are a fundamental piece of all ocean ecosystems yet, sampling plankton at the high resolution required to understand their dynamics remains a challenge. In-situ imaging tools offer an approach to sample plankton at fine scales. Advances in technology and methodology provide the ability to make in-situ imaging a common tool in plankton ecology. Despite the massive potential of in-situ imaging tools, there are no standard approaches for analyzing the associated data. Consequently, studies are inconsistent in analyzing in-situ imaging data, even for similar questions. This introduces challenges in comparing across studies and sampling devices. In this review, we briefly summarize the increasing use, potential and novel applications of in-situ imaging tools in plankton ecology. Then, we synthesize the common analyses used across these studies. Finally, we address the major statistical challenges associated with the unique sampling mechanisms of in-situ imaging tools and discuss the theoretical uncertainties, which arise from the low-sampling volumes of many in-situ imaging tools. To fully unlock the power of in-situ imaging tools in plankton ecological studies, researchers must carefully consider how to analyze their data. We provide recommendations for processing and analyzing data while also acknowledging a large need for developing new statistical tool.