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The Gospel and Economic Disorder: Ephesus and the Cult of Artemis

by C. Eric Turner

Religions 2025, 16(5), 553; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050553 - 26 Apr 2025

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This paper will explore the background of how the first-century cult of Artemis was central to the economy of Ephesus, and subsequently, how Paul’s preaching of the gospel caused an economic disruption during his visit to the city, as narrated in Acts 19:21–41. The goal will be to show how theology and economics are interrelated and, as a result, establish the proper domain for advancing human flourishing in our modern society. The lens through which this paper is seeking to understand economics is through what is known as substantivism over and against formalism, or an empirical-based approach against a deductive–abstract methodology. The substantivist position is undertaken here primarily to explain how economic life is embedded in non-economic structures (here, the cult of Artemis). Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue How Christianity Affects Public Policy)

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RETRACTED: Fatunmbi et al. Irreversibility Analysis for Eyring–Powell Nanoliquid Flow Past Magnetized Riga Device with Nonlinear Thermal Radiation. Fluids 2021, 6, 416

by Ephesus Olusoji Fatunmbi, Adeshina Taofeeq Adeosun and Sulyman Olakunle Salawu

Fluids 2025, 10(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids10010011 - 8 Jan 2025

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The Fluids Editorial Office retracts the article “Irreversibility Analysis for Eyring–Powell Nanoliquid Flow Past Magnetized Riga Device with Nonlinear Thermal Radiation” [...] Full article

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Samaritan Israelites and Jews under the Shadow of Rome: Reading John 4:4–45 in Ephesus

by Laura J. Hunt

Religions 2023, 14(9), 1149; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14091149 - 8 Sep 2023

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Genealogies, knowledge, and purity all can provide separate identities with the means for competing self-definition. This article assumes a social location near Ephesus with Samaritan Israelites and Judeans in a Jesus-believing network. Rather than providing an analysis in which divisions are transcended, this reading suggests that a negotiation in John 4:4–45 of these three characteristics navigates divisions to create a complex, merged superordinate identity. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Complexity of Identities and Boundaries within the New Testament World)

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Using Network DEA to Explore the Effect of Mobile Payment on Taiwanese Bank Efficiency

by Bao-Ngoc Tong, Cheng-Ping Cheng, Lien-Wen Liang and Yi-Jun Liu

Sustainability 2023, 15(8), 6344; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15086344 - 7 Apr 2023

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In order to explore the potential influence of new mobile payment services on the Ephesus model developed by Kao and Hwang (2008), we investigated the relative performance of 19 Taiwanese banks from 2018 to 2021. The network efficiency was divided into two parts: management efficiency and profitability efficiency. Only one bank achieved total efficiency from 2019 to 2021. The stage efficiencies showed increments during the first three years (2018–2020), but they declined in 2021. Most banks had low efficiency in the management stage and high efficiency in the profitability stage, suggesting that there are weaknesses in the management of physical resources but high awareness that mobile payment services can be exploited to achieve high profitability. Our results prove that mobile payment is a potential and profitable new service that Taiwanese banks should take advantage of. Comparing the results between the CCR model and the NDEA model, we observed that the NDEA model has more explanatory power, as it provides insight into the internal structure of the working process of Taiwanese banks. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Revolution in Sustainable Business Models and Finance Management)

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A Byzantine Metaphysics of Artefacts? The Case of Michael of Ephesus’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics

by Marilù Papandreou

Philosophies 2022, 7(4), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7040088 - 11 Aug 2022

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The ontology of artefacts in Byzantine philosophy is still a terra incognita. One way of mapping this unexplored territory is to delve into Michael of Ephesus’ commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Written around 1100, this commentary provides a detailed interpretation of the most important source for Aristotle’s ontological account of artefacts. By highlighting Michael’s main metaphysical tenets and his interpretation of key-passages of the Aristotelian work, this study aims to reconstruct Michael’s ontology of artefacts and present it as one instance, which is perhaps exemplary, of the Byzantine ontology of artefacts. In particular, the study shows that this commentary holds a definite position on the nature of artefacts, according to which they are neither substances nor hylomorphic compounds. Indeed, artefacts lack a form altogether and their forms exist only in thought. As a result, Michael’s commentary provides an ontological interpretation of artefacts as accidental beings, i.e., as matter which acquires a mere property as opposed to a substantial form. While such an interpretation shows originality when compared to the Aristotelian text, it also indicates adherence to the reading established by Alexander of Aphrodisias, despite important departures concerning the status of natural forms. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Art vs Nature: The Ontology of Artifacts in the Long Middle Ages)

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RETRACTED: Irreversibility Analysis for Eyring–Powell Nanoliquid Flow Past Magnetized Riga Device with Nonlinear Thermal Radiation

by Ephesus Olusoji Fatunmbi, Adeshina Taofeeq Adeosun and Sulyman Olakunle Salawu

Fluids 2021, 6(11), 416; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids6110416 - 16 Nov 2021

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The report contained in this article is based on entropy generation for a reactive Eyring–Powell nanoliquid transfer past a porous vertical Riga device. In the developed model, the impacts of viscous dissipation, thermophoresis alongside nonlinear heat radiation and varying heat conductivity are modelled into the heat equation. The dimensionless transport equations are analytically tackled via Homotopy analysis method while the computational values of chosen parameters are compared with the Galerkin weighted residual method. Graphical information of the various parameters that emerged from the model are obtained and deliberated effectively. The consequences of this study are that the temperature field expands with thermophoresis, Brownian motion and temperature ratio parameters as the modified Hartmann number compels a rise in the velocity profile. The entropy generation rises with an uplift in fluid material term as well as Biot and Eckert numbers whereas Bejan number lessens with Darcy and Eckert parameters. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluids in Magnetic/Electric Fields)

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