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Rural Development Policies and Sustainable Land Use in the Hillside Areas of Honduras: A Quantitative Livelihoods Approach

By: Jansen, Hans G. P.,Pender, John L.,Damon, Amy,Schipper, Robert A.

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Rural Development Policies and Sustainable Land Use in the Hillside Areas of Honduras: A Quantitative Livelihoods Approach

By: Jansen, Hans G. P.,Pender, John L.,Damon, Amy,Schipper, Robert A.

Poverty is deep and widespread in Honduras. This is especially the case in the hillside areas-home to one-third of the country's population, the majority of whom earn their living through agriculture. While both policymakers and donors are under strong pressure to provide adequate interventions, they require guidance on what drives sustainable rural productivity growth, how to prioritize expenditures, and how to formulate effective development strategies. In this report, the authors develop an integrated econometric framework, based on the livelihoods concept, and demonstrate how it can be used as a policy targeting tool. Using this framework, the authors provide policymakers and stakeholders with empirical information on the livelihood strategies currently employed in the hillside areas of Honduras, existing opportunities for alleviating poverty, and potential priorities for policy and investments.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896291561

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A Concise History of Ancient Israel

From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era

By: Bernd U. Schipper

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A Concise History of Ancient Israel

From the Beginnings Through the Hellenistic Era

By: Bernd U. Schipper

The history of biblical Israel, as it is told in the Hebrew Bible, differs substantially from the history of ancient Israel as it can be reconstructed using ancient Near Eastern texts and archaeological evidence. In A Concise History of Ancient Israel, Bernd U. Schipper uses this evidence to present a critical revision of the history of Israel and Judah from the late second millennium BCE to the beginning of the Roman period. Considering archaeological material as well as biblical and extrabiblical texts, Schipper argues that the history of “Israel” in the preexilic period took place mostly in the hinterland of the Levant and should be understood in the context of the Neo-Assyrian expansion. He demonstrates that events in the exilic and postexilic periods also played out differently than they are recounted in the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah. In contrast to previous scholarship, which focused heavily on Israel’s origins and the monarchic period, Schipper’s history gives equal attention to the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, providing confirmation that a wide variety of forms of YHWH religion existed in the Persian period and persisted into the Hellenistic age. Original and innovative, this brief history provides a new outline of the historical development of ancient Israel that will appeal to students, scholars, and lay readers who desire a concise overview.

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Penn State Press

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1646020278

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Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Women in Proverbs from Around the World

By: Mineke Schipper,Wilhelmina Janneke Josepha Schipper

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Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Women in Proverbs from Around the World

By: Mineke Schipper,Wilhelmina Janneke Josepha Schipper

In this study the author analyses similarities, differences and contradictions in the cultural norms about gender expressed in proverbs she has found in oral and written sources from over 150 countries. Grouping the proverbs into categories as the female body, love, sex, childbirth and the female power, the author examines shared patterns in ideas about women and how men see them.

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Yale University Press

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0300102496

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9780300102499

Burleith

By: Ross Schipper and Dwane Starlin

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Burleith

By: Ross Schipper and Dwane Starlin

Known as the Village in the City since 1973, Burleith is a small 10-square-block residential community nestled between Georgetown to the south and east and Glover Park to the north. The name "Burleith" dates back to 17th-century Scotland, and the area was first subdivided in 1887 as part of Frederic W. Huidekoper's Burleith Addition to West Washington. Also known as Georgetown Heights, Burleith caught the attention of Charles Dickens, who wrote in 1842, "The heights of this neighborhood, above the Potomac River, are very picturesque and are free, I should conceive, from some of the insalubrities of Washington." The Shannon & Luchs real estate firm built the majority of Burleith's row houses in a predominantly Georgian style during the early 1920s.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467125490

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The Hermeneutics of Torah

Proverbs 2, Deuteronomy, and the Composition of Proverbs 1–9

By: Bernd U. Schipper

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The Hermeneutics of Torah

Proverbs 2, Deuteronomy, and the Composition of Proverbs 1–9

By: Bernd U. Schipper

This revised and expanded English edition of Bernd U. Schipper’s 2012 Hermeneutik der Tora incorporates the results of his continued research and writings on Proverbs. For nearly a century, many biblical scholars have argued that the main theological traditions, such as the divine law, God’s torah, do not appear in the book of Proverbs. In this volume, however, Schipper demonstrates that Proverbs interacts in a sophisticated way with the concept of the torah. A detailed analysis of Proverbs 2 and other passages from the first part of the book of Proverbs shows that Proverbs engages in a postexilic discourse around “wisdom and torah” concerning the abilities of humans to fulfill the will of YHWH exemplified in the divine torah.

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SBL Press

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0884145344

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9780884145349

Driving Europe

Building Europe on Roads in the Twentieth Century

By: Frank Schipper

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Driving Europe

Building Europe on Roads in the Twentieth Century

By: Frank Schipper

Today we can hardly imagine life in Europe without roads and theautomobiles that move people and goods around. In fact, the vastmajority of movement in Europe takes place on the road. Travelersuse the car to explore parts of the continent on their holidays,and goods travel large distances to reach consumers. Indeed, thetwentieth century has deservedly been characteried as the centuryof the car. The situation looked very different around 1900.People crossing national borders by car encountered multiplehurdles on their way. Technically, they imported their vehicleinto a neighboring country and had to pay astronomic importduties. Often they needed to pass a driving test in each countrythey visited. Early on, automobile and touring clubs sought tomake life easier for traveling motorists.International negotiations tackled the problems arising fromdiffering regulations. The resulting volume describes everythingfrom the standardied traffic signs that saved human lives on theroad to the Europabus taking tourists from Stockholm to Romein the 1950s. Driving Europe offers a highly original portrait of aEurope built on roads in the course of the twentieth century.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9052603081

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9789052603087

Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible

By: Jeremy Schipper

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Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible

By: Jeremy Schipper

Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible examines the intimate relationship between parables and conflict in the Hebrew Bible. Challenging the scholarly consensus, Jeremy Schipper argues that parables do not function as appeals to change their audience's behavior. Nor do they serve to diffuse tensions in regards to the various conflicts in which their audiences are involved. Rather, the parables function to help create, intensify, and justify judgments and hostile actions against their audiences. In order to examine how the parables accomplish these functions, this book pays particular attention to issues of genre and recent developments in genre theory, shifting the central issues in the interpretation of Hebrew Bible parables.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139478044

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Proverbs 1-15

By: Bernd U. Schipper

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Proverbs 1-15

By: Bernd U. Schipper

The book of Proverbs is more than the sum of its parts. Even if some individual proverbs and collections could be older, the overall composition stems from the late Persian or early Hellenistic period. In its present form, the book of Proverbs introduces the scribal student to the foundations of sapiential knowledge and its critical reflection. By discussing different worldviews and contrasting concepts on the relationship between God, the world, and humanity, the book of Proverbs paves the way to both the critical wisdom of Job and Ecclesiastes and the masterful combination of Wisdom and Torah in Sirach. Scholarly research has long situated the book of Proverbs within ancient Near Eastern literature but declared it to be something "alien" within the Hebrew Bible. In contrast to such a position, the present commentary interprets the book of Proverbs against the background of both ancient Near Eastern literature and the literature of the Hebrew Bible. One aim of the commentary is to discuss new ancient Near Eastern parallels to the book of Proverbs, with a special focus on Egyptian wisdom literature, including Demotic texts from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE. An equally important aim of this commentary is a detailed exegesis of Proverbs 1-15 as well as an analysis of the overarching strategy of the book of Proverbs as a whole. Taking the prologue of the book in Prov 1:1-7 as a hermeneutical key, the book of Proverbs turns out to be a masterful composition addressing both the beginner and the advanced sage. With its allusions to other biblical texts, including the book of Deuteronomy, the Psalms and the Prophets, the book of Proverbs can be connected to forms of scribal exegesis in Second Temple literature. By using the same scribal techniques as other literati of his time, the scribal sage responsible for some parts of the book as well as its final compilation seeks to provide deeper insight into the complex world of scribal knowledge and sapiential thought.

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Fortress Press

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1506463819

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9781506463810

Mobile Phone Panel Surveys in Developing Countries

A Practical Guide for Microdata Collection

By: Andrew Dabalen,Alvin Etang,Johannes Hoogeveen,Elvis Mushi,Youdi Schipper,Johannes von Engelhardt

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Mobile Phone Panel Surveys in Developing Countries

A Practical Guide for Microdata Collection

By: Andrew Dabalen,Alvin Etang,Johannes Hoogeveen,Elvis Mushi,Youdi Schipper,Johannes von Engelhardt

Household survey data are very useful for monitoring living conditions of citizens of any country. In developing countries, a lot of this data are collected through “traditional†? face-to-face household surveys. Due to the remote and dispersed nature of many populations in developing countries, but also because of the complex nature of many survey questionnaires, collection of timely welfare data has often proved expensive and logistically challenging. Yet, there is a need for faster, cheaper to collect, lighter, more nimble data collection methods to address data gaps between big household surveys. The recent proliferation of mobile phone networks has opened new possibilities. By combining baseline data from a traditional household survey with subsequent interviews of selected respondents using mobile phones, this facilitates welfare monitoring and opinion polling almost real time. The purpose of this handbook is to contribute to the development of the new field of mobile phone data collection in developing countries. The handbook documents how this innovative approach to data collection works, its advantages and challenges. The handbook draws primarily from the authors’ first-hand experiences with mobile phone surveys in Africa and also benefits from experiences elsewhere. It is intended to serve a diverse audience including those involved in collecting (representative) data using mobile phones, and those using data collected through this approach. For those who will be implementing a mobile phone panel survey, the different chapters guide them through every stage of the implementation process. For potential users of the data collected via mobile phone technology, the handbook presents a new approach to data collection which they can use for monitoring programs and facilitate almost real time decision-making. A further purpose of this book is to contribute to the debate regarding the advantages of the method as well as the challenges associated with it.

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World Bank Publications

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1464809054

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Denmark Vesey's Bible

The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial

By: Jeremy Schipper

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The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial

By: Jeremy Schipper

This book provides a historical reconstruction of a famous trial in the antebellum American South in which the Bible was invoked alternatively by the prosecution and the defense as both a pro- and antislavery text"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691259313

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9780691259314

Forging the Male Spirit

The Spiritual Lives of American College Men

By: W. Merle Longwood,William C. Schipper,Philip Culbertson,Gar Kellom

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Forging the Male Spirit

The Spiritual Lives of American College Men

By: W. Merle Longwood,William C. Schipper,Philip Culbertson,Gar Kellom

Young men undergo significant changes during their years in college. They wrestle with "big questions," which are essentially spiritual questions, as they ponder who they are, what they believe, what kind of persons they want to become, and how they might shape the world into something they can feel comfortable being themselves in. Those who participate in men's groups realize that their involvement can nurture their inner lives as they explore these questions and connect to transcendent values and a vision of a larger whole. This book includes historical and sociological perspectives on men and spirituality and an expanded case study of how one campus pioneered in the development of men's spirituality groups, which became a model for other campuses. It includes quantitative empirical research that explores college men's openness to spirituality and their interest in men's groups. The book's most extensive discussion is based on a qualitative analysis of thirty-six interviews with male college students, focusing on their understanding of the relationship between their masculinity and their spirituality, and how spirituality groups provided a venue in which they could begin to engage what it means to be spiritual and what it means to be a man.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1621893499

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9781621893493

Black Samson

The Untold Story of an American Icon

By: Nyasha Junior,Jeremy Schipper

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Black Samson

The Untold Story of an American Icon

By: Nyasha Junior,Jeremy Schipper

Leading biblical scholars tell the story of how Samson, a controversial biblical character, became a celebrated icon in African American literature and how Black Samson was used to address race in America.

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0190689781

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Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible

Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story

By: Jeremy Schipper

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Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible

Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story

By: Jeremy Schipper

This unique interdisciplinary book uses a fresh approach to explore issues of disability in the Hebrew Bible. It examines how disability functions in the David Story (1 Samuel 16; 1 Kings 2) by paying special attention to Mephibosheth, the only biblical character with a disability as a sustained character trait. The David Story contains some of the Bible's most striking images of disability. Nonetheless, interpreters tend to focus on legal material rather than narratives when studying disability in the Hebrew Bible. Often, they neglect the David Story's complex use of disability. They overlook its use of disability imagery as open to critical interpretation because its stereotypical meanings may seem so commonplace and transparent. Yet recent work in the burgeoning field of disability studies presents disability as a complicated motif that demands more critical engagement than it typically receives. Informed by exciting developments in the field, it argues that the David Story employs disability imagery as a subtle mode of narrating and organizing various ideological positions regarding national identity.

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0567337510

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Rural Development Policies and Sustainable Land Use in the Hillside Areas of Honduras: A Quantitative Livelihoods Approach

Rural Development Policies and Sustainable Land Use in the Hillside Areas of Honduras: A Quantitative Livelihoods Approach

A Concise History of Ancient Israel

A Concise History of Ancient Israel

Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet

Burleith

Burleith

The Hermeneutics of Torah

The Hermeneutics of Torah

Driving Europe

Driving Europe

Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible

Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible

Proverbs 1-15

Proverbs 1-15

Mobile Phone Panel Surveys in Developing Countries

Mobile Phone Panel Surveys in Developing Countries

Denmark Vesey's Bible

Denmark Vesey's Bible

Forging the Male Spirit

Forging the Male Spirit

Black Samson

Black Samson

Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible

Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible

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