Query: abraham in the new testament

title: Abraham in the New Testament
abstract: Within the pluralism of the late twentieth century, when Christians continue to search for their true identity, the New Testament appropriation of the Abraham stories points to the importance of foundational traditions and the need to reinterpret them in contemporary terms.

title: Abraham in New Testament Letters

title: The New Testament Faith of the Old Testament Righteous One: Abraham in the Letter to the Hebrews
abstract: This work examines particular characteristics of faith, on which the author of Hebrews focuses the reader's attention. Unlike other New Testament books, where faith is presented as a means for obtaining salvation in Christ, or as a necessary component for performing a miracle, the book of Hebrews depicts faith as patience and endurance, as daily "walking with God," as sojourning and constant waiting for the One who "will come and will not delay." The author of the book chooses Old Testament heroes to be examples of such faith, particularly Abraham. Analyzing the structure of the Abrahamic narrative the author of the letter presents to his readers Abraham as a hero of faith who started by faith his spiritual journey, sojourned by faith his entire life, and concluded his earthly traveling also by faith. This work shows that the faith described in Hebrews originates in the Scripture of Torah. The author of Hebrews didn't "endow" his Old Testament heroes with New Testament qualities in order to strengthen his own point, but "discovered" these qualities diligently exegeting the Old Testament texts and disclosing the intention of the Old Testament authors.

title: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1
abstract: In 2008, we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy. Since then, this topic has received increasing attention, and many scientists have entered the field. Our knowledge base and relevant new technologies have also been expanding. Thus, it is important to formulate on a regular basis updated guidelines for monitoring autophagy in different organisms. Despite numerous reviews, there continues to be confusion regarding acceptable methods to evaluate autophagy, especially in multicellular eukaryotes. Here, we present a set of guidelines for investigators to select and interpret methods to examine autophagy and related processes, and for reviewers to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of reports that are focused on these processes. These guidelines are not meant to be a dogmatic set of rules, because the appropriateness of any assay largely depends on the question being asked and the system being used. Moreover, no individual assay is perfect for every situation, calling for the use of multiple techniques to properly monitor autophagy in each experimental setting. Finally, several core components of the autophagy machinery have been implicated in distinct autophagic processes (canonical and noncanonical autophagy) implying that genetic approaches to block autophagy should rely on targeting two or more autophagy related genes that ideally participate in distinct steps of the pathway. Along similar lines, because multiple proteins involved in autophagy also regulate other cellular pathways including apoptosis, not all of them can be used as a specific marker for bona fide autophagic responses. Here, we critically discuss current methods of assessing autophagy and the information they can, or cannot, provide. Our ultimate goal is to encourage intellectual and technical innovation in the field.

title: ST JOHN S PORTRAIT OF THE CHURCH IN THE APOCALYPSE by DA VID EDWARD AUNE
abstract: IN Mr. Aune we welcome a new contributor to the QUARTERLY. He is a graduate of Wheaton College, where he specialized in Hel'lenistic Greek and New Testament, and has done advanced study in the University of M'innesota in classics, linguistics and ancient history. He has used his special studies to good advantage in this examination of the words and figures which are used to portray the Church in the Book of the Revelation.

title: VERITAS Detection of LS 5039 and HESS J1825 137
abstract: This research is supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, and by NSERC in Canada. This research used resources provided by the Open Science Grid, which is supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, and resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE AC02 05CH11231. We acknowledge the excellent work of the technical support staff at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and at the collaborating institutions in the construction and operation of the instrument.

title: Explorer Echoes without resonance
abstract: This paper seeks to critique some of the developments in the study of the use of the Jewish scriptures in the New Testament writings. The focus is upon studies that have emerged subsequent to, and are indebted to, Richard Hays' Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. The argument here is not that there are no citations, allusions, or echoes of the Jewish scriptures in the New Testament writings: such a position would be absurd. Rather, it is observed that many of the proposed new echoes or allusions are highly speculative, the method employed is not capable of self falsification, and in effect it is a type of radical reader response. That is, if a reader can detect an echo or allusion, then that brings such an intertextual link into existence. Such an approach is acceptable if it is recognized that such studies are engaged in creative theological reflection (perhaps akin to what many New Testament authors were doing themselves) but such methods frequently have little connection with trying to ascertain authorial intention (as difficult as that might be in its own right)

title: International Congress of Drug Therapy in HIV Infection 23 26 October 2016, Glasgow, UK
abstract: Scientific advances over the 35 years since AIDS was first recognized as a new disease, have put us on a clear path towards ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Scaling up access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and HIV prevention strategies, such as pre exposure prophylaxis, could dramatically decrease HIV related deaths and the rate of new HIV infections. Current and future scientific advances, notably in HIV vaccine and cure research, will accelerate this process. Two major directions in HIV vaccine development will be discussed: building on the results from RV 144, the clinical trial in Thailand that resulted in the first modest signal of efficacy for a HIV vaccine; and structure based immunogen design to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies. Cure research has accelerated greatly over the past few years in two areas. The first is the prospect of eradicating the HIV reservoir altogether (i.e. a classic cure) which might involve novel latency reversing and immunotoxic regimens and gene editing techniques to create a host cellular environment that does not allow HIV replication. The second approach involves controlling viral rebound following discontinuation of ART to achieve sustained virological remission employing strategies, such as passive transfer of broadly neutralizing antibodies and therapeutic vaccination. In 2016, the arsenal of scientifically proven interventions available, as well as the hope of others to come, offer unprecedented opportunities to make major gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS. With a major global commitment to implement these scientific advances, the end of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is now achievable.

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title: A Search for Pulsations from Geminga above 100 GeV with VERITAS
abstract: We present the results of 71.6 hr of observations of the Geminga pulsar (PSR J0633+1746) with the VERITAS very high energy gamma ray telescope array. Data taken with VERITAS between 2007 November and 2013 February were phase folded using a Geminga pulsar timing solution derived from data recorded by the XMM Newton and Fermi LAT space telescopes. No significant pulsed emission above 100 GeV is observed, and we report upper limits at the 95% confidence level on the integral flux above 135 GeV (spectral analysis threshold) of 4.0 x 10 13 s 1 cm 2 and 1.7 x 10 13 s 1 cm 2 for the two principal peaks in the emission profile. These upper limits, placed in context with phase resolved spectral energy distributions determined from 5 yr of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) constrain possible hardening of the Geminga pulsar emission spectra above ~50 GeV.