... to art suggested by the book's title is also reflected in its composition - if that is the word. Although consisting of numbered essays (both verbal as well as entirely pictorial) Berger explicitly advises the reader (the text begins in a whimsical and refreshing way already on the book's jacket) to go through them in ... whatever order he pleases, his principal aim merely being "to raise questions". This rather capricious approach somewhat obscures the unifying - and certainly unsettling - theme of the work: instead of examining what ... tellingly is confined to representational art,...

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... and informed by Jerome's exegetical work in scripture and scriptural commentaries. During his years in Palestine, Jerome had worked to perfect his knowledge of Hebrew, which gave him access to a larger range of Biblical commentaries and interpretations. An example of his incorporation of Hebrew texts is his Commentary on Ecclesiastes (389), which uses both the Latin translation and the Hebrew version as its basis. In ... addition, Jerome published Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim (Hebrew Questions; 390), short interpretive essays on the book of Genesis; in these essays, Jerome considers...

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... strong abolitionist views and to stimulate thinking in the same direction: the prize essay, recommending abolition, was chosen by Catherine in 1765. By her own very public example of inoculation against smallpox (in contrast to the royal families of France, Spain and Austria who refused to undergo it on religious grounds), she sought both to save lives and to demonstrate the real benefits ... ) which she established also saved young lives which, in turn, she intended to turn into useful lives. (See Janet Hartley, `Philanthrophy in the Reign of Catherine the Great: Aims and Realities' in ...

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