Parchment

The Get is written by a scribe and signed by two authorized witnesses. The husband then presents the get to the wife in the presence of the witnesses, thus effecting the divorce under Jewish law. Once the Get has been received by the wife, the Get parchment is cut by the supervising rabbi and it is retained in the Bais Din files. The Bais Din issues a certificate (the ptur) to each party, generally after the civil divorce is finalized, indicating that a Get has been given and accepted and that…

While conventionally it would be the job of the critic, not the critiqued, to theorize as to the author’s ulterior motives in presenting, in this case, the plainly unreasonable as theory and pedagogy, they in a radical turn however have provided an account of their own skullduggery (likely on the admittedly safe assumption that no one outside the field of writing studies would make it more than 3 pages into this work.) “Reimagining FYC as Intro to Writing Studies might create more natural…

Ragwell stood in the half-open doorway, burnished by the flickering candlelight within. As they entered, Seer Borys fastened the great ebony doors with a thud. The empress sat behind her desk, scribbling furiously at a parchment she had taken from the tilting stacks. Always writing, thought Hunter, and the memories brought a sliver of a smile to his lips. He half-remembered the stories she had penned as they grew up together, eons ago, and for a moment he considered inquiring after them. No, he…

The Middle Ages are a misunderstood period of history in which the popular view is that they were a dark and gloomy time with little or no progress. In fact, the Medieval Times were much brighter times than what is commonly believed. Many accomplishments made during these times attributed to the progression of history. Religion was vitally important to the people of the middle ages and brought them together as a society. Beauty can be found in the architecture, music, and literature from this…

The practice of scalping, the removal of the scalp from the head often to be used as a trophy, has long been one of the most enigmatic, contentious, and startling elements of early American history. Often distorted by Anglo-Saxon ethnocentrism, understandings of scalping, both past and present, have most commonly presented the practice as the embodiment of Indian savagery and cruelty. Much more than evidence of Indian warfare’s barbarism, however, scalping was a vital part of the nuanced and…

After Sukenik seen pieces of fragments of the scrolls, he personally took a trip to Bethlehem to see the cave, where the fragments were originally discovered. Sukenik wrote in a diary entry December 1, 1947 stating, “I read a little more in the ‘parchments.’ I’m afraid of going too far in thinking about them. It may be that this is one of the greatest finds ever made in Palestine, a find we never so much hoped for.” (Vermes) Then in February 18, 1948, John C. Trevor was contacted by Father…

I started reading where I marked. “…a man, who looked like a skeleton and wore strange clothing, once asked for my signature. He gave me a peculiar writing utensil and a piece of parchment. It was such a strange moment that I had my artist paint me a painting of the man.” I looked up from the paper. I pulled up a picture on Google, and sure enough a picture of the man came up. He also was mentioned by countless others, such as George…

Turn on oven and set to 375F. Prepare a baking sheet and line with parchment paper. Grease with cooking spray. 2. Roll out pizza dough into a rectangle about ¼-inch thick. Cut out 16 triangles from the pizza dough. 3. Place 3 pepperonis on the bottom wide area of the triangle. Place half a stick of the string cheese on top…

An Ox, from the time of its birth, is both determined and resilient. Born at the bottom of the herd and born with a hunger to achieve, the daring offspring sets out with its right foot forward looking to move up in the herd. The Ox knows that trial and strife lay before him and that the road will be anything but a paved paradise, however, the more challenges he conquers the more he can add to his reputation. I too strive to conquer in every challenge in life before me and constantly aim to…

At the beginning of the school year, my senior English students read arguably one of the most challenging texts, language-wise, they will encounter all year: Beowulf. The students complete this reading primarily as homework while they simultaneously read The Canterbury Tales during class. As students are reading two texts, as they do for much of the school year, it is difficult to devote equal time to both works and to assess both works with enough variety that class does not become boring or…