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Cracks in the Ivory Tower

The Moral Mess of Higher Education

By: Jason Brennan,Phillip Magness

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Cracks in the Ivory Tower

The Moral Mess of Higher Education

By: Jason Brennan,Phillip Magness

Academics extol high-minded ideals, such as serving the common good and promoting social justice. Universities aim to be centers of learning that find the best and brightest students, treat them fairly, and equip them with the knowledge they need to lead better lives. But as Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness show in Cracks in the Ivory Tower, American universities fall far short of this ideal. At almost every level, they find that students, professors, and administrators are guided by self-interest rather than ethical concerns. College bureaucratic structures also often incentivize and reward bad behavior, while disincentivizing and even punishing good behavior. Most students, faculty, and administrators are out to serve themselves and pass their costs onto others. The problems are deep and pervasive: most academic marketing and advertising is semi-fraudulent. To justify their own pay raises and higher budgets, administrators hire expensive and unnecessary staff. Faculty exploit students for tuition dollars through gen-ed requirements. Students hardly learn anything and cheating is pervasive. At every level, academics disguise their pursuit of self-interest with high-faluting moral language. Marshaling an array of data, Brennan and Magness expose many of the ethical failings of academia and in turn reshape our understanding of how such high power institutions run their business. Everyone knows academia is dysfunctional. Brennan and Magness show the problems are worse than anyone realized. Academics have only themselves to blame.

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Oxford University Press

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0190846291

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Church Music

For the Care of Souls

By: Phillip Magness

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Church Music

For the Care of Souls

By: Phillip Magness

The Lord's song sings faith into people's hearts. Music is central to the life of the church. In Church Music: For the Care of Souls, Phillip Magness helps the church to recover the primary instrument in worship: congregational voices. With voices raised, we sing praises to our God and King for his Son Jesus Christ. Singing calls for a special kind of leadership—not only on the part of musicians, but also among pastors and lay leaders. Together, leaders can help congregations find their voice and reclaim the power of music for the care of souls.

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Lexham Press

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1683597117

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Jesus the Bridegroom

The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels

By: Phillip J. Long

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Jesus the Bridegroom

The Origin of the Eschatological Feast as a Wedding Banquet in the Synoptic Gospels

By: Phillip J. Long

Did Jesus claim to be the "bridegroom"? If so, what did he mean by this claim? When Jesus says that the wedding guests should not fast "while the bridegroom is with them" (Mark 2:19), he is claiming to be a bridegroom by intentionally alluding to a rich tradition from the Hebrew Bible. By eating and drinking with "tax collectors and other sinners," Jesus was inviting people to join him in celebrating the eschatological banquet. While there is no single text in the Hebrew Bible or the literature of the Second Temple Period which states the "messiah is like a bridegroom," the elements for such a claim are present in several texts in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Hosea. By claiming that his ministry was an ongoing wedding celebration he signaled the end of the Exile and the restoration of Israel to her position as the Lord's beloved wife. This book argues that Jesus combined the tradition of an eschatological banquet with a marriage metaphor in order to describe the end of the Exile as a wedding banquet.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1630870331

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The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium

By: Phillip R. Callaway

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The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium

By: Phillip R. Callaway

In The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium, Phillip R. Callaway presents the most comprehensive survey of the Dead Sea Scrolls since the final publication of the cave 4 fragments. The chapters on editing the Scrolls, on the caves, on the scrolls, and on Khirbet Qumran present the evidence without getting bogged down in older controversies. Callaway discusses the so-called yahad ostracon, as well as a fascinating writing exercise, and the supposed Dead Sea Scroll on stone. Those who desire to know more about the Bible among the Scrolls are offered brief comments on over one hundred readings from Qumran's biblical manuscripts and other biblical texts. In the chapter on the pseudepigrapha and apocrypha, Callaway emphasizes the rich literary production of the mid- to late Second Temple period, with sections on Enoch, Jubilees, the Genesis Apocryphon, a Genesis commentary, the Reworked Pentateuch, targums on Leviticus and Job, the Temple Scroll, the New Jerusalem, an Apocryphon of Joshua, the psalms, various works of wisdom, Tobit, Ben Sira, the Epistle of Jeremiah, and the Greek fragments from cave 7. The chapter on the Community Scrolls deals with the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Community and its appendages, a Hybrid Rule, the Rule of War, the Thanksgiving Hymns, Florilegium, Testimonia, Melchizedek, the pesher commentaries on Habakkuk, Nahum, and Psalm 37, Ordinances, Calendar texts, Some Works of the Law, the Angelic Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, and the phylacteries. In terms of the Scrolls and Jewish history, Callaway discusses the text called Praise for Jerusalem and King Jonathan, the Copper Scroll, the documentary texts (which may or may not be from Qumran), the history of the Qumran community, and some similarities to early Christian thought and language. In addition to clarifying discussions of all the works mentioned above, the author hopes that The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium will help readers understand the Scrolls not as the product of a radical, separatist community, but rather as the literary heritage of many of the greatest Jewish minds that lived in the Second Temple period.

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1621893375

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Public Letters and Political Essays

By: Lysander Spooner,Phillip W. Magness

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Public Letters and Political Essays

By: Lysander Spooner,Phillip W. Magness

This collection brings together the political writings and short essays of Lysander Spooner for the first time in a single volume. Spooner’s editorials span topics ranging from abolitionism and the Civil War, to free banking and currency, to the trial of President Garfield’s assassin, to government corruption in Massachusetts during the Gilded Age – all with biting wit and an uncompromising disdain for politicians. Containing over 40 years of newspaper editorials as well as the complete set of Spooner’s contributions to the magazine Liberty, many of these essays have been out of print for over a century. For any fan of Spooner’s political philosophy, and the idea of human liberty generally, this collection is essential reading. The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.

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American Institute for Economic Research

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0913610739

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The 1619 Project: A Critique

By: Phillip W. Magness

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The 1619 Project: A Critique

By: Phillip W. Magness

”When I first weighed in upon the New York Times’ 1619 Project, I was struck by its conflicted messaging. Comprising an entire magazine feature and a sizable advertising budget, the newspaper’s initiative conveyed a serious attempt to engage the public in an intellectual exchange about the history of slavery in the United States and its lingering harms to our social fabric. It also seemed to avoid the superficiality of many public history initiatives, which all too often reduce over 400 complex years of slavery’s history and legacy to sweeping generalizations. Instead, the Times promised detailed thematic explorations of topics ranging from the first slave ship’s arrival in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 to the politics of race in the present day. At the same time, however, certain 1619 Project essayists infused this worthy line of inquiry with a heavy stream of ideological advocacy. Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones announced this political intention openly, pairing progressive activism with the initiative’s stated educational purposes. In assembling these essays, I make no claim of resolving what continues to be a vibrant and ongoing discussion. Neither should my work be viewed as the final arbiter of historical accuracy, though I do evaluate a number of factual and interpretive claims made by the project’s authors. Rather, the aim is to provide an accessible resource for readers wishing to navigate the scholarly disputes, offering my own interpretive take on claims pertaining to areas of history in which I have worked." -- Phil Magness

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American Institute for Economic Research

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1630692018

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Colonization After Emancipation

Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement

By: Phillip W. Magness,Sebastian N. Page

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Colonization After Emancipation

Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement

By: Phillip W. Magness,Sebastian N. Page

History has long acknowledged that President Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, had considered other approaches to rectifying the problem of slavery during his administration. Prior to Emancipation, Lincoln was a proponent of colonization: the idea of sending African American slaves to another land to live as free people. Lincoln supported resettlement schemes in Panama and Haiti early in his presidency and openly advocated the idea through the fall of 1862. But the bigoted, flawed concept of colonization never became a permanent fixture of U.S. policy, and by the time Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, the word “colonization” had disappeared from his public lexicon. As such, history remembers Lincoln as having abandoned his support of colonization when he signed the proclamation. Documents exist, however, that tell another story. Colonization after Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement explores the previously unknown truth about Lincoln’s attitude toward colonization. Scholars Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page combed through extensive archival materials, finding evidence, particularly within British Colonial and Foreign Office documents, which exposes what history has neglected to reveal—that Lincoln continued to pursue colonization for close to a year after emancipation. Their research even shows that Lincoln may have been attempting to revive this policy at the time of his assassination. Using long-forgotten records scattered across three continents—many of them untouched since the Civil War—the authors show that Lincoln continued his search for a freedmen’s colony much longer than previously thought. Colonization after Emancipation reveals Lincoln’s highly secretive negotiations with the British government to find suitable lands for colonization in the West Indies and depicts how the U.S. government worked with British agents and leaders in the free black community to recruit emigrants for the proposed colonies. The book shows that the scheme was never very popular within Lincoln’s administration and even became a subject of subversion when the president’s subordinates began battling for control over a lucrative “colonization fund” established by Congress. Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, and even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about the end of slavery really were.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826272355

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Church Music

For the Care of Souls

By: Phillip Magness

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For the Care of Souls

By: Phillip Magness

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Blumberg on Corporate Groups

By: Phillip I. Blumberg

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Blumberg on Corporate Groups

By: Phillip I. Blumberg

This new five volume "Second Edition" of "Blumberg on

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735542066

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The Law of Corporate Groups

Jurisdiction, Practice, and Procedure

By: Phillip I. Blumberg,Kurt A. Strasser,Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

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The Law of Corporate Groups

Jurisdiction, Practice, and Procedure

By: Phillip I. Blumberg,Kurt A. Strasser,Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

Traditional corporation law (or entity law) no longer covers the challenges presented by today's multinational corporate integration and control. Now, Blumberg's ground-breaking analysis of the law of corporate groups (or enterprise law) brings current trends in business law into sharp focus, with detailed examination of thousands of cases.Every corporate lawyer must deal with state statutory issues, and this is the source to turn to for information and guidance. Blumberg provides expert, practical analysis of the statutes -- and their application -- in such areas as: Public utilities, banking, and Savings and Loan Associations following federal models -- Insurance Alcoholic beverages and gambling -- The vital topic of professional responsibility in the representation of affiliated corporations is also covered here.

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0735570361

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9780735570368

Facets of Fear

The Fear of God in Exilic and Post-Exilic Contexts

By: Phillip Michael Lasater

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Facets of Fear

The Fear of God in Exilic and Post-Exilic Contexts

By: Phillip Michael Lasater

Back cover: How was the widespread notion "fear of God" understood? Why in the first place did it make sense among ancient Jewish scribes to pair "fear" terminology with "God(s)" terminology? Phillip Michael Lasater addresses these questions through philological, conceptual, and exegetical analyses, responding to the history of research on the topic and opening up fresh perspectives.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161566769

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Our Cherished Halls of Ivy

A Time for Tune-Up or Overhaul?

By: Phillip L. Beukema

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Our Cherished Halls of Ivy

A Time for Tune-Up or Overhaul?

By: Phillip L. Beukema

Higher education has both supporters and detractors, although not in equal numbers. Some would have us believe that our higher education enterprise is on the brink of disaster, that it’s falling apart at the seams. Some go so far as to call the system broken beyond repair, suggesting that it be rebuilt from the ground up. Can it be this bad? Drawing on his long experience in higher ed administration, the author examines the sea change that’s affected nearly every corner of the higher learning landscape. These corners include the high-and-rising costs of tuition, the crushing levels of student debt, the shamefully low graduation rates in too many schools, the growing “million-dollar clubs” whose members include university presidents and football and basketball coaches, the inadequacies of accreditation, and the growing influence of partisan politics in the conduct of our public universities. That’s for starters. With an insider’s perspective, the author paints a picture that is up-front and honest, laying bare the depth and extent of specific problems confronting that crucial engine of our economy – higher education. In each case, he spells out what needs a tune-up and what needs something closer to an overhaul. Of course, he offers specific proposals for ‘fixing’ those problems. They’re likely to be controversial, but the author hopes they spark a debate that ultimately leads to productive solutions.

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iUniverse

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1663244340

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Colonization After Emancipation

Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement

By: Phillip W. Magness,Sebastian N. Page

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Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement

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Cracks in the Ivory Tower

The Moral Mess of Higher Education

By: Jason Brennan,Phillip Magness

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The Moral Mess of Higher Education

By: Jason Brennan,Phillip Magness

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Cracks in the Ivory Tower

Cracks in the Ivory Tower

Church Music

Church Music

Jesus the Bridegroom

Jesus the Bridegroom

The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium

The Dead Sea Scrolls for a New Millennium

Public Letters and Political Essays

Public Letters and Political Essays

The 1619 Project: A Critique

The 1619 Project: A Critique

Colonization After Emancipation

Colonization After Emancipation

Church Music

Church Music

Blumberg on Corporate Groups

Blumberg on Corporate Groups

The Law of Corporate Groups

The Law of Corporate Groups

Facets of Fear

Facets of Fear

Our Cherished Halls of Ivy

Our Cherished Halls of Ivy

Colonization After Emancipation

Colonization After Emancipation

Cracks in the Ivory Tower

Cracks in the Ivory Tower

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