signalling hypothesis Quick reference
A Dictionary of Finance and Banking (6 ed.)
... hypothesis The idea that business organizations adopt certain policies largely because they send a positive signal to the financial markets about the firm’s position and prospects, whatever the stated reasons for these policies may be. Thus, a generous dividend policy can be a means by which management signals its positive view of the firm’s future prospects to the markets. Such signalling is a means of overcoming the mismatch between the information available to managers and to shareholders ( see asymmetric information ). See also agency...
signalling hypothesis Quick reference
A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
... hypothesis The idea that many actions taken by economic agents are motivated chiefly by the wish to send a positive ‘signal’ to other agents, rather than by their ostensible purpose. This can be a means of overcoming the problem of asymmetric information between transactors. For example, a business may choose to spend an ostentatious amount of money on advertising a new product—not because this is the most cost-effective form of publicity, but because a large outlay by the company signals its faith in the product to investors, distributors, and other...
signalling hypothesis
Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel Reference library
Lawrence E. Stager
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...dating much later. The Conquest Hypothesis Of the three regnant scholarly hypotheses formulated to account for the emergence of Israel in Canaan, the “conquest” hypothesis conforms most closely to the biblical presentation of DH. W. F. Albright developed a powerful formulation of the conquest hypothesis, which many American and Israeli archaeologists later espoused, G. Ernest Wright and Yigael Yadin being two of its most...
Bitter Lives: Israel in and out of Egypt Reference library
Carol A. Redmount
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...criticism has pursued underlying sources, arranged these in historical order, and identified points where different sources were redacted, or edited together, to form larger units. This method of analysis produced the “Documentary Hypothesis” that, with variations, remains widely followed today. The Documentary Hypothesis posits for the Pentateuch four primary literary sources (J, E, P, and D), dated to different periods in the first half of the first millennium bce , which were woven together by a series of mid-first-millennium redactors. Among those...
The Four Gospels in Synopsis Reference library
Henry Wansbrough
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...Hypothesis. Truly scientific study of this problem did not begin until in 1776 J. J. Griesbach produced a critical edition of a Synopsis of the Gospels, printing the gospels in parallel columns and thus enabling the reader to see in detail the similarities and differences between them. His conclusion, published in 1789, was that Mark was nothing but a combination of Matthew and Luke. The same conclusion had been reached slightly earlier by the little-known Oxford scholar Henry Owen in 1764, so that this view is sometimes called the Owen–Griesbach hypothesis....
Romans Reference library
Craig C. Hill and Craig C. Hill
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...Jerusalem church. By their reading, Paul's defence in Romans of the equality of Jew and Gentile is aimed squarely at the Jerusalem Christians. This presents a heroic, classically Protestant portrait of Paul as the lone champion of Christian freedom. Despite its popularity, this hypothesis is not corroborated by the New Testament. The only substantial evidence strongly supports the contrary view, that the Jerusalem church accepted Gentiles qua Gentiles as Christian believers ( e.g. Gal. 2:1–10; Acts 15 ; see Hill 1992 : 103–92 ). This does not mean that there...
A Land Divided: Judah and Israel from the Death of Solomon to the Fall of Samaria Reference library
Edward F. Campbell Jr.
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...This led a few historians to wonder whether a Davidic royal establishment and a “covenant with David” might be a fiction, retrojected into the past from Josiah's time or even from the time of the Babylonian exile—that is, from the late seventh or sixth centuries bce . But this hypothesis has been destroyed by the discovery of the Dan stela, with its inescapable reference to the “house of David.” At Arad, guarding the Judean southern frontier, 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of the Dead Sea, the date of the Solomonic fortress (Stratum XI) has been disputed...
Job Reference library
James L. Crenshaw and James L. Crenshaw
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...integrity by worshipping the one who gives and takes away, and in the end receives everything back—with new children. The poetic debate presents an entirely different hero, one who lacks patience and openly attacks the deity for injustice. This section of the book rejects the hypothesis of a universe operating on a principle of reward and punishment, whereas the prose implies that YHWH does act towards the friends and Job on the basis of merit. Moreover, the names for deity differ in the prose, which uses YHWH, and the poetic debate, where the more general...
Genesis Reference library
R. N. Whybray and R. N. Whybray
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...their combination into larger complexes, has considerable plausibility; on the other hand, the notion of a fragment hypothesis according to which there was no lengthy process of growth but a single act of composition in which a mass of material was collated by a single author, as in the case of the early Greek historians cited above, has undergone something of a revival: see Whybray ( 1987 : 221–42 ). In this commentary the Documentary Hypothesis is referred to only occasionally. Obvious differences of point of view implied in the material employed have been...
Jeremiah Reference library
Kathleen M. O'Connor and Kathleen M. O'Connor
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the Life of Jeremiah (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Smith, M. S. (1990), The Laments of Jeremiah and Their Contexts: A Literary and Redactional Study of Jeremiah 11–20, SBLMS 42 (Atlanta: Scholars Press). Soderlund, S. (1985), The Greek Text of Jeremiah: A Revised Hypothesis, JSOTSup 47 (Sheffield: JSOT). Song, C. S. (1981), The Tears of Lady Meng: A Parable of People's Political Theology, Risk, 11 (Geneva: WCC). Stulman, L. (1986), The Prose Sermons of the Book of Jeremiah: A Redescription of the Correspondences with Deuteronomistic Literature...
Isaiah Reference library
R. Coggins and R. Coggins
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...army is vividly portrayed, but perhaps the most important point comes at the outset: this oppressor has been summoned by God himself, in terms of signalling to the nations, a metaphor which will be used again in 11:12 and 49:22 . (The Heb. here has ‘nations’, though NRSV has changed it to the singular ‘nation’, without note, in view of the context.) Here it connotes threat; in the later passages the signal will herald deliverance. What follows is a conventional description of an army on the march, and it would be unwise to limit its applicability to the...
Psalms Reference library
C. S. Rodd and C. S. Rodd
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...with such reconstructions lie in the sparsity of corroborative evidence outside the psalms themselves, and the circular argument of reconstructing the cultic drama from the psalms and then fitting the psalms into that worship. On the other hand it has to be admitted that the hypothesis has succeeded in bringing the psalms to life in a vivid way, which few other proposals have managed to do. (For an excellent discussion of the issues see Day 1990 : 67–108. ) Here only the broadest outline of the rites and some of the evidence which has been drawn upon will...
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