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The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer book; the social locations of biblical knowledge in late antique Babylonia and socio-religious typologies of the bowls; and the dynamics of scriptural citation in ancient Jewish magic. In a number of cases, the bowls also contain the earliest attestations of biblical verses not found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Pre-dating the next available evidence by four to five centuries, the bowls are a valuable resource for biblical text critics.

By making these valuable witnesses to the Hebrew Bible easily available to scholars, The Bible in the Bowls is designed to facilitate further research by linguists, liturgists, biblical text critics, and students of Jewish magic. It collates and transcribes each biblical verse as it appears in the published bowls, furnishes details of the bowls' publication, and notes various features of interest. The catalogue is also accompanied by an accessible introduction that briefly introduces the incantation bowls, surveys their deployment of scripture in light of their magical goals, and discusses the orthography of the quotations and what this can tell us about the encounter with the biblical text in late antique Babylonia.

This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the 'dust bowl' concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia's iconic Snowy River-that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme. --

"If feminism is still an ongoing project after 60-odd years, then why has the backlash been so long in the coming?This edited volume reflects on current debate around gender in education, where academics, practitioners and policy-makers are beginning to refer to a crisis of masculinity. Why is there an under-representation of men in education? Why do women increasingly outstrip men in terms of achievement? Is it possible men are becoming educationally disadvantaged?Drawing on research from the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada the contributors reveal the full spectrum of issues at hand in gender inequality in education. Other forces which have comparable impacts, and which intersect with gender include class, ethnicity and age as well as colonisation. In the light of this, the book provides both evidence and argument to illuminate contemporary debates about the involvement of women and men in education. Importantly, this book critically addresses some of the taken-for-granted beliefs about men and their engagement in lifelong learning, presenting new evidence to demonstrate the complexity of gender and education today. With these complexities in mind, the authors develop new frameworks and questions which provide a theoretical basis to develop further understanding of the many issues involve with gender and lifelong learning.This book will be of interest to any practitioner open to the fresh ideas and approaches in teaching and programming needed when taking into account the differences both between men and women and among men and women"--

Adult Education in Neoliberal Times -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Historical and Political Contexts for Adult Education -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism and Its Impact on Adult Education -- Mapping the Field of Adult Education -- The Scope and Nature of Adult Educators' Work -- Situating Adult Educators' Beliefs and Values -- Professionalism and Career Identity in Adult Education -- Summary of the Book -- 2 From Adult Education to Lifelong Learning: A Changing Global Landscape -- Introduction -- The Importance of History in Understanding Contemporary Adult Education -- Historical Developments in Adult Education -- The Protestant Reformation -- The 'Enlightenment' and Revolution -- Colonial Expansion -- Urbanisation and Industrialisation -- A Post-World War Two Consensus on Education -- Anti- and Post-Colonialism -- Globalising Capitalism and Neoliberalisation -- The Global Discourse of Lifelong Learning -- The Capture of Adult Education for Lifelong Learning Policy Hegemony -- Adult Education in the Current Context -- Summary -- 3 England and New Zealand: Two National Contexts for Adult Education -- Introduction -- New Zealand and England: A Brief Demographic Sketch -- Two Historical Contexts for Adult Education -- Adult and Community Education and the Rise of the Welfare State -- The Sixties and Seventies: Radical Influences and Educational Idealism -- Struggles with Neoliberalism -- England and the Legacy of Thatcherism -- New Zealand and the Neoliberal Experiment -- 2016: Where Are the Adult and Community Educators? -- Summary -- Note -- 4 Professionalism, Professionalisation and Continuing Professional Development in the Adult Education Arena -- Introduction -- Discourses of Professionalism in Formal Education -- Traditional Discourses of Professionalism