The ALPS collaboration runs a light-shining-through-walls (LSW) experiment to search for photon oscillations into "weakly interacting sub-eV particles" (WISPs) inside of a superconducting HERA dipole ...magnet at the site of DESY. In this paper we report on the first successful integration of a large-scale optical cavity to boost the available power for WISP production in this type of experiments. The key elements are a frequency tunable narrow line-width continuous wave laser acting as the primary light source and an electronic feed-back control loop to stabilize the power build-up. We describe and characterize our apparatus and demonstrate the data analysis procedures on the basis of a brief exemplary run.
Abstract
Was there a chance, between 853 and 841 bce, to prevent the rise of Assyria to supreme power in the Near East, and thus the invention of imperialism as a political concept? Which ...imperfections in human behaviour in general, or which flaws in the characters of the protagonists specifically, must have been absent to ensure a more favourable course of events? No deuteronomism without Assyria: thus the present essay tries to forecast how the world of today would look if this way of thought had never arisen.
Ahab Agonistes Grabbe, Lester L
2007, 2007-04-28, Letnik:
421
eBook
The European Seminar in Historical Methodology is committed to debating issues surrounding the history of ancient Israel and Judah with the aim of developing methodological principles for writing a ...history of the period.AA In this particular session the topic chosen was the Omride dynasty-its rise and fall-and the subsequent Jehu dynasty, down to the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians.Participants discuss such topics as the dating of prophetic texts, the house of Ahab in Chronicles, the Tel Dan inscription, the Mesha inscription, the Jezebel tradition, the archaeology of Iron IIB, the relationship between the biblical text and contemporary sources, and the nature of the Omride state.AA The volume incidentally gives a reasonably comprehensive treatment of the main sources, issues, debates, and secondary literature on this period of Israel's history.AA An introductory chapter summarizes the individual papers and also the relevant section of Mario Liverani's recent history of the period.AA A concluding `Reflections on the Debate' summarizes the issues raised in the papers and provides a perspective on the discussion.AA LHB/OTS volume 421 -AA ESHM volume 6
PSALM LX UND PSALM CVIII Knauf, Ernst Axel
Vetus Testamentum,
2000, Letnik:
50, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This historical allusions in Ps lx are sufficiently specific to date this psalm to the years 599 or 598 B.C.E.; the psalm may thus be understood as the work of a single author. The repetition of Ps ...lx 7-12 in Ps cviii 7-14, with due regard for the whole composition of Pss cviii-cx, leads further proof to the dating of Ps cx (and cviii) to the reign of John Hyrcan. Within the (proto-) canonical psalter, Ps lx and cviii read related to each other as promise (Ps lx) and fulfillment (Ps cviii).
In July 2003, a conference was held at the University of
Heidelberg (Germany), focusing on the people and land of Judah
during the 5th and early 4th centuries B.C.E.- the period when the
Persian ...Empire held sway over the entire ancient Near East. This
volume publishes the papers of the participants in the working
group that attended the Heidelberg conference.
Participants whose contributions appear here include: Y. Amit,
B. Becking, J. Berquist, J. Blenkinsopp, M. Dandamayev, D. Edelman,
T. Eskenazi, A. Fantalkin and O. Tal, L. Fried, L. Grabbe, S.
Japhet, J. Kessler, E. A. Knauf, G. Knoppers, R. Kratz, A. Lemaire,
O. Lipschits, H. Liss, M. Oeming, L. Pearce, F. Polak, B. Porten
and A. Yardeni, E. Stern, D. Ussishkin, D. Vanderhooft, and J.
Wright.
The conference was the second of three meetings; the first, held
at Tel Aviv in May 2001, was published as Judah and the Judeans
in the Neo-Babylonian Period by Eisenbrauns in 2003. A third
conference focusing on Judah and the Judeans in the Hellenistic era
was held in the summer of 2005, at Münster, Germany, and will also
be published by Eisenbrauns.
