Spectrum Of Scholarship Research Articles

Public Administration in the Information Society: Essays on Risk and Trust

Risk and trust are interlocking issues, thrown into the social, political and managerial foreground as governments pursue their responses to the development of the information society. Transformations in the ways in which information is gathered, stored, transmitted and shared throughout government and the wider polity, raise a variety of concerns across the spectrum of scholarship and public commentary. As the use of ICT becomes virtually ubiquitous, debates about risk and trust have taken on deeper and broader dimensions, in part reflected in the growing interest in risk management, and more recently in trust management, in public administration. Risk and trust must be acknowledged as central concepts in governments' ambitions to address the information society, therefore. As our societies, polities and economies become increasingly 'wired' and information intensive, the collection, management and development of information resources come more and more to the centre of attempts to control and regulate for risk and trust in and by public administrations. Flows of information deriving from new ICT applications pervade public administration and the wider polity, as the chapters in this book show.

Jewish Bible personages in the New Testament

This unique book analyzes in a comprehensive manner all of the characters from the Jewish Bible who appear or are mentioned in the New Testament. The author traces the patterns and analyzes the possible reasons why the various writers of the New Testament used certain Jewish Bible personages to illustrate their theology. Beginning with an overview of the relationship of the New Testament to Jewish Scripture, including proof texting, allusion, allegory and typology and a spectrum of scholarship on this subject, this book suggests that the New Testament writers were attempting to affirm their authority and confirm their authenticity by elaborating this central relationship. The book then outlines the frequency with which individual Jewish Bible personages appear in the New Testament. Charts tabulate such appearances and map out their location in the various New Testament writings. The book's main task is a study of the 39 personages, in terms of their theological function in the New Testament. An invaluable resource for beginning and advanced students of New Testament.