unit-linked policy Quick reference
A Dictionary of Finance and Banking (6 ed.)
...-linked policy A life-assurance policy in which the benefits depend on the performance of a portfolio of shares. Each premium paid by the insured person is split: one part is used to provide life-assurance cover, while the balance (after the deduction of costs, expenses, etc.) is used to buy units in a unit trust . In this way a small investor can benefit from investment in a managed fund without making a large financial commitment. As they are linked to the value of shares, unit-linked policies can go up or down in value. Policyholders can surrender the...
unit-linked policy Quick reference
A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)
...-linked policy A life-assurance policy in which the benefits depend on the performance of a portfolio of shares. Each premium paid by the insured person is split: one part is used to provide life-assurance cover, while the balance (after the deduction of costs, expenses, etc.) is used to buy units in a unit trust . In this way a small investor can benefit from investment in a managed fund without making a large financial commitment. As they are linked to the value of shares, unit-linked policies can go up or down in value. Policyholders can surrender the...
unit-linked policy
Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy Reference library
Carol Meyers
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...of a state. Yet the famous dictum that power corrupts is everywhere evident in the often harsh and unjust policies that states impose on their populaces. Thus the empirical questions that we must ask in assessing the rise of the Israelite state, or any state, can never be separated from difficult philosophical problems of justice and equity in human affairs, of the sanction of violence, of the nature of political power and its abuses. Linking the Israelite state with the concept of divine favor makes the issue of morality all the more difficult,...
Isaiah Reference library
R. Coggins and R. Coggins
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...between different groups will become still more acute. ( Ch. 51 ) There is dispute here as to the extent of the units. Kuntz ( 1982 ) has made a persuasive case for seeing vv. 1–16 as a complete unit, but that involves calling vv. 9–11 an ‘interlude’. There is also a sense in which the natural unit is vv. 1–8 , a structured poem with three parallel introductions in vv. 1, 4 , and 7 , though what follows is certainly closely linked. We shall follow the NRSV divisions. ( 51:1–3 ) This is not regarded as a Servant Song but the introductions are...
Domesticity Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...or piano, which were primary instruments of domestic *music . Here domesticity is linked to consumer desire, emphasizing the domestic interior as a site of conspicuous cultural and material consumption [ see *consumerism, 19 ]. A growing fascination with all aspects of the home—including, for example, how many rooms were appropriate for how many children, for their physical and mental well-being—underpinned the idea of the family as a close- knit cell and self-contained unit. The family became increasingly enclosed—physically and conceptually—within the four...
Micah Reference library
H. G. M. Williamson and H. G. M. Williamson
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the few details at 1:1 (see Commentary) and elsewhere we may surmise that he spoke on behalf of his fellow landowners and elders of a typical country town against the excessive burdens which the centralized militarizing policy of the Jerusalem establishment was imposing upon the people. Against surface appearances, he denounces these policies as leading to injustice ( 2:1–2; 3:1–3 ) and so interprets them as ‘transgression’ and ‘sin’ ( 1:5; 3:8 ). Appeal to only one aspect of the nation's religious traditions ( 2:6–11; 3:11 ) will not prevent them from...
1 Maccabees Reference library
U. Rappaport and U. Rappaport
The Oxford Bible Commentary
... v. 19 , circular letters announcing Roman policy and decisions were an instrument of Roman diplomacy; see at vv. 22–4 . v. 21 , ‘scoundrels’, such an extradition clause is not common in our sources, yet some incomplete analogies can be found. See Rappaport ( 1995 b ). vv. 22–4 , the list of poleis, kings, and states, recipients of a letter similar to the one sent to Ptolemy, cited above, has evoked many suggestions, aimed mainly at finding a common denominator for these incongruous political units. Some have suggested that all had Jewish...
1 & 2 Samuel Reference library
Gwilym H. Jones, Gwilym H. Jones, and Gwilym H. Jones
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...story of the Gibeonites' revenge in 2 Sam 21:1–14 and with events concerning the house of Saul and the death of Ishbaal in 2 Sam 2–4 . The link with 2 Sam 21:1–14 is the strongest. Chronologically the revenge of the Gibeonites preceded the accommodation of Mephibosheth at David's table. The slaughter of seven Saulide descendants gave occasion for David's enquiry in v. 3 (taking v. 1 as a superfluous editorial link, so Veijola 1975 ); they could not have been alive at this time. The original continuous narrative of 21:1–14; 9:1–13 was later separated...
Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon Reference library
Mordechai Cogan
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...the border area between Assyria and Babylonia that had been heavily damaged during the wars between the two powers, in towns whose names suggest that it was official policy to reclaim wastelands, such as Tel-abib (“Mound of the Flood”; Ezek. 3.15 ) and Tel-harsha (“Mound of Potsherds”) and Tel-melah (“Mound of Salt”; Ezra 2.59 ). These communities of Judeans seem to have been self-governing units; the elders of Judah and the heads of families took over communal duties with the blessing of the Babylonian authorities. Not only Judeans, but also deportees from...
Deuteronomy Reference library
Christoph Bultmann and Christoph Bultmann
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...(or a less clearly defined offering: Ex 23:19 ) seems to have been a conventional contribution which peasants gave for ceremonies at local shrines, cf. Am 4:4–5 . Any suggestion to link it to royal taxation remains speculative ( Crüsemann 1996 : 215–19 ). The tithe is made the subject of a formal command in Deuteronomy in an attempt to abolish the traditional rites and to link the offering to the central sanctuary. A tendency towards desacralization of the tithe is reflected by the permission to turn it into money and to reserve the money for a pilgrimage....
Bitter Lives: Israel in and out of Egypt Reference library
Carol A. Redmount
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...and capturing Qadesh on the Orontes. Instead of slaughtering his opponents, Thutmose III bound them to Egypt by loyalty oaths and then carted assorted Canaanite royal family members off to Egypt as insurance policies for princely good behavior. He also created a network of Egyptian garrison cities and headquarters to carry out Egyptian imperial policies and ambitions and to ensure the steady flow of tribute. Coastal and lowland plain cities, including Megiddo and Bethshan, predominated in the network, but strategic considerations also dictated the...
Israel among the Nations: The Persian Period Reference library
Mary Joan Winn Leith
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...requisitioned by the Persians from their subordinate temple communities, which were expected to support local officials of the empire with food rations. It was not high-minded respect for individual peoples, ethnic groups, and foreign religions that motivated Persian policy. Rather, Persian policy was driven by enlightened self-interest. By reconciling the central power with local subjects, the Persians strengthened their empire. Another way of assessing the decree of Cyrus is to look at the visual arts. Cyrus's appeals to Marduk in the cylinder...
Democracy Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...century, for instance, Thomas *Spence advanced his Land Plan, which called for the destruction of all private property. His admirers, the *Spenceans , continued to spread his message well into the nineteenth century, but by the 1820s some early utopian *socialists were linking inequality and economic oppression with rapid *industrialization [14] and unrestrained capitalism. In the view of such writers as Charles Hall ( c. 1745– c. 1845 ), Robert *Owen , William *Thompson , and Thomas Hodgskin ( 1787–1869 ), most of the wealth produced by...
Scottish Local and Family History Quick reference
David moody
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...maybe all, the taboos have fallen. Illegitimacy , divorce , sex, birth control, abortion, infanticide, child abuse, venereal disease, and homosexuality are now mainstream, following the pioneering work of Rosalind Mitchison and Leah Lenemann . This revolution is, of course, linked to women's emancipation and the consequent search for their historical identity ( Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle , Women in Scotland c.1100–c.1750 ( 1999 ). Women and crime feature strongly, partly because this is one area where they are visible and have voices in the...
Industrial History Quick reference
David Hey
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
...were increasingly wage‐earners with no land, whose cottages were rented from the manufacturers. By 1850 the West Riding had 880 woollen mills, and steam engines rather than water wheels were now the major source of power. During the long reign of Queen Victoria, the ancient link between home and place of work was broken. The uneven pace of change is shown by a comparison with the east midlands hosiery industry, which was not turned into a factory‐based system until the second half of the 19th century (see J. V. Beckett and J. E. Heath , ‘ When Was the...
Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel Reference library
Lawrence E. Stager
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...through Isaac, son of the primary wife, Sarah, and Midianites through Midian, son of the secondary wife or concubine, Keturah, whose name means “incense.” From Moses on, Midianites were also linked to Israelites by marriage to the founder of Yahwism. All of this changed dramatically during the period of the judges. The about-face in attitude and policy toward the once-friendly Midianites is nowhere more vividly portrayed than in the polemic against the worship of Baal of Peor in Moab. In the J summary of the event ( Num. 25.1–5 ), the...
1 & 2 Kings Reference library
Walter Dietrich, Walter Dietrich, and Walter Dietrich
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...army chief, whilst Zadok ( cf. 1:8, 10, 34, 39 ) becomes Abiathar's successor. ( 2:36–46 ) The Elimination of Shimei Solomon plays a cruel game with Shimei, probably a former officer in the private guard who has switched sides from Solomon to Adonijah ( cf. 1:8,10 ), but who is linked here with the Benjaminite leader of 2 Sam 16:5–14 and 19:17–24 . He places him under house-arrest only to sentence him to death when he is forced to leave his house. The author of vv. 44–5 , the pro-Solomon, prodynastic thinker already known to us, gives Solomon's cynical...
Introduction to the New Testament Reference library
Leslie Houlden
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...endorsed in many of its results ( Houlden 1986 ; Carroll 1991 ). During that period, the NT writings have been subjected to all kinds of analytical procedures. Almost all of these have involved treating them as separate units, often indeed identifying possible sources behind them (notably in the case of the gospels) or possible earlier units that have gone to form them as composite wholes (some of the letters, e.g. 2 Cor). Mostly, it has been a matter of attempting to suggest the original form, setting, and intention of each of the writings by the use of...
2 Maccabees Reference library
R. Doran and R. Doran
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...Cyprus in 168 bce . Ptolemy's friendly attitude towards the Jews should not be seen as something personal, but as part of Seleucid policy. The previous governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, Apollonius ( 4:4 ) and Ptolemy son of Dorymenes ( 4:45; 8:8 ), had been hostile to the Jews, and they probably reflected court policy. The appointment of Ptolemy Macron and his friendly attitude would then reflect the changed Seleucid policy after peace negotiations had begun under Antiochus IV ( 11:27–33 ) and after the first expedition of Lysias in 164 bce ( 1 Macc...
