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Although Romans has been heavily mined for scriptural allusions in recent years, the influence of Isaiah 49–50 on Rom 7.14-25 has gone largely unnoticed. Building on Philonenko's work on the allusion to Isa 50.1 in the phrase ‘sold under sin’ (Rom 7.14), this study seeks to identify additional echoes from LXX Isa 49.24–50.2 in Rom 7.14-25 and to interpret Paul's discourse in the light of the sin–exile–restoration paradigm implied by both the source's original context and Paul's own strategic use of Isaiah in his portrayal of the plight of ἐγώ. The identification of these echoes, it is suggested, aids in interpreting the story of ἐγώ by connecting the allusions to Israel's early history in Rom 7.7-13 to images of the nation's later history in 7.14-25, thus showing the speaker's plight under sin to be analogous to Israel's own experiences of deception, death, and exile. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Iphigenia in Israel" explores how the figure of the daughter—now more prominent with the flourishing of women's writing in Hebrew, but certainly significant well before—works against a literature that has been characterized as a literature of fathers and sons. The project is meant as a corrective to the distorted image of Israeli literature. In addition to incorporating more recent works into our reading of the national literature, alternative readings of earlier works are also included. The article analyzes how authors contend with the "impossibility" of the father-daughter relationship, and the possibilities they present to their characters. While the variations on fathers and daughters seem nearly endless, the options remain starkly limited. More recent works challenge and subvert the paradigm of limited choices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Shab'a Farms being the paradigm for the settlement of territorial conflicts. It is stated that the Shab'a Farms area comprise six farmlands, which are now abandoned, on forty kilometres where Syria, Lebanon, and Israel meet. Also included are the potential scenarios of leasing Shab'a Farms such as the confirmation of Syria's title to the Shab'a Farms, confirmation of Lebanon's title to the Shab'a Farms, and confirmation of Syria's title to the Shab'a Farms.

Despite the expectations of economic theory, a century of Arab-Jewish economic interaction in Palestine has not led to the convergence that is supposed to result from exchange between a capital-rich economy and a labor-intensive one. After GO years of failed integration, the Arab population in Israel has fallen to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder With the Palestinian "regional economies" in Israel and the occupied territories operating as part of the same Israeli economic regime, the challenge for Palestinian economic policy makers is to build on the new paradigm in shaping a national development strategy aimed at reconstructing Arab-Jewish economic relations on the principles of balanced cooperation embodied in the Economic Annex of the 1947 UN partition resolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a reprint of the article "Why Israel is Shunned," by Daniel Pipes, which appeared in the "National Review Online." It notes that the paradigm shift is a specific intellectual framework that underpins Jews' understanding of reality in Israel. It mentions that the paradigm advocates the abolition of nation-states and the establishment of international government.