En torno al concepto de Proto-República, una revisión cronológica de la versión temprana del diálogo platónico

El presente trabajo busca reconstruir la historia del concepto de Proto-República de manera crítica. Se analizará sudecurso histórico a la luz de las críticas hacia la estilometría y los estudios evolucionistas, a la vez que se propone una clave de lectura propia sobre el constructo analizado en la línea de las lecturas integrales del pensamiento platónico

En torno al concepto de Proto-República, una revisión cronológica de la versión temprana del diálogo platónico

El presente trabajo busca reconstruir la historia del concepto de Proto-República de manera crítica. Se analizará sudecurso histórico a la luz de las críticas hacia la estilometría y los estudios evolucionistas, a la vez que se propone una clave de lectura propia sobre el constructo analizado en la línea de las lecturas integrales del pensamiento platónico

En torno al concepto de Proto-República, una revisión cronológica de la versión temprana del diálogo platónico

El presente trabajo busca reconstruir la historia del concepto de Proto-República de manera crítica. Se analizará sudecurso histórico a la luz de las críticas hacia la estilometría y los estudios evolucionistas, a la vez que se propone una clave de lectura propia sobre el constructo analizado en la línea de las lecturas integrales del pensamiento platónico

Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology : On the Basis of Old Church Slavic

In this study I offer a diachronic solution for a number of difficult inflectional endings in Old Church Slavic nominal declensions. In this context I address the perhaps most disputed and the most important question of the Slavic nominal inflectional morphology: whether there was in Proto-Slavic an Auslautgesetz (ALG), a law of final syllables, that narrowed the Proto-Indo-European vowel */o/ to */u/ in closed word-final syllables. In addition, the work contains an exhaustive morphological classification of the nouns and adjectives that occur in canonical Old Church Slavic. I argue that Proto-Indo-European */o/ became Proto-Slavic */u/ before word-final */s/ and */N/. This conclusion is based on the impossibility of finding credible analogical (as opposed to phonological) explanations for the forms supporting the ALG hypothesis, and on the survival of the neuter gender in Slavic. It is not likely that the */o/-stem nominative singular ending */-u/ was borrowed from the accusative singular, because the latter would have been the only paradigmatic form with the stem vowel */-u-/. It is equally unlikely that the ending */-u/ was borrowed from the */u/-stems, because the latter constituted a moribund class. The usually stated motivation for such an analogical borrowing, i.e. a need to prevent the merger of */o/-stem masculines with neuters of the same class, is not tenable. Extra-Slavic, as well as intra-Slavic evidence suggests that phonologically-triggered mergers between two semantically opaque genders do not tend to be prevented, but rather that such mergers lead to the loss of the gender opposition in question. On the other hand, if */-os/ had not become */-us/, most nouns and, most importantly, all adjectives and pronouns would have lost the formal distinction between masculines and neuters. This would have necessarily resulted in the loss of the neuter gender. A new explanation is given for the most apparent piece of evidence against the ALG hypothesis, the nominative-accusative singular of the */es/-stem neuters, e.g. nebo 'sky'. I argue that it arose in late Proto-Slavic dialects, replacing regular nebe, under the influence of the */o/- and */yo/-stems where a correlation had emerged between a hard root-final consonant and the termination -o, on the one hand, and a soft root-final consonant and the termination -e, on the other.

The Proto-Lucianic Problem in 1 Samuel

The Lucianic text of the Septuagint of the Historical Books witnessed primarily by the manuscript group L (19, 82, 93, 108, and 127) consists of at least two strata: the recensional elements, which date back to about 300 C.E., and the substratum under these recensional elements, the proto-Lucianic text. Some distinctive readings in L seem to be supported by witnesses that antedate the supposed time of the recension. These witnesses include the biblical quotations of Josephus, Hippolytus, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Cyprian, and the Old Latin translation of the Septuagint. It has also been posited that some Lucianic readings might go back to Hebrew readings that are not found in the Masoretic text but appear in the Qumran biblical texts. This phenomenon constitutes the proto-Lucianic problem. In chapter 1 the proto-Lucianic problem and its research history are introduced. Josephus references to 1 Samuel are analyzed in chapter 2. His agreements with L are few and are mostly only apparent or, at best, coincidental. In chapters 3 6 the quotations by four early Church Fathers are analyzed. Hippolytus Septuagint text is extremely hard to establish since his quotations from 1 Samuel have only been preserved in Armenian and Georgian translations. Most of the suggested agreements between Hippolytus and L are only apparent or coincidental. Irenaeus is the most trustworthy textual witness of the four early Church Fathers. His quotations from 1 Samuel agree with L several times against codex Vaticanus (B) and all or most of the other witnesses in preserving the original text. Tertullian and Cyprian agree with L in attesting some Hebraizing approximations that do not seem to be of Hexaplaric origin. The question is more likely of early Hebraizing readings of the same tradition as the kaige recension. In chapter 7 it is noted that Origen, although a pre-Lucianic Father, does not qualify as a proto-Lucianic witness. General observations about the Old Latin witnesses as well as an analysis of the manuscript La115 are given in chapter 8. In chapter 9 the theory of the proto-Lucianic recension is discussed. In order to demonstrate the existence of the proto-Lucianic recension one should find instances of indisputable agreement between the Qumran biblical manuscripts and L in readings that are secondary in Greek. No such case can be found in the Qumran material in 1 Samuel. In the text-historical conclusions (chapter 10) it is noted that of all the suggested proto-Lucianic agreements in 1 Samuel (about 75 plus 70 in La115) more than half are only apparent or, at best, coincidental. Of the indisputable agreements, however, 26 are agreements in the original reading. In about 20 instances the agreement is in a secondary reading. These agreements are early variants; mostly minor changes that happen all the time in the course of transmission. Four of the agreements, however, are in a pre-Hexaplaric Hebraizing approximation that has found its way independently into the pre-Lucianic witnesses and the Lucianic recension. The study aims at demonstrating the value of the Lucianic text as a textual witness: under the recensional layer(s) there is an ancient text that preserves very old, even original readings which have not been preserved in B and most of the other witnesses. The study also confirms the value of the early Church Fathers as textual witnesses.

Proto-alphabetic inscriptions from the Wadi Arabah

Abstract: Three early West Semitic inscriptions from the Arabah valley are studied here, all of them apparently connected with the Egyptian copper-mining activity in the region, notably at Timna, in the period of the Ramessides. The most striking detail in these texts is a sign corresponding to an Egyptian hieroglyph (N6B ) which depicts two serpents guarding the sun-disc, and another with one serpent (N6 , ); these never appear on conventional tables of early alphabetic letters; this leads to a critical reappraisal of current identifications of the original picture-signs, and elaboration of a new system of interpreting early Canaanite inscriptions, involving recognition that the signs could sometimes stand for whole words and could also be used as rebuses.

El ejercicio del poder en la “República de los notables” : notas sobre relaciones clientelares y legitimidad

Resumen: La vinculación entre la elite dirigente –principalmente rural en el interior de la Argentina- y los sectores dependientes, durante la república de los notables en la Argentina (1880-1916), ha sido vista como una relación clientelar. El objeto de este trabajo es explorar algunas pautas culturales que aparecen como el fundamento de esas relaciones y que permiten profundizar en el funcionamiento del sistema político durante esos años.

La constitución externa de la República Argentina

La Constitución Nacional tiene, como ley fundamental, una dimensión externa que conforma lineamientos sustantivos en materia de derecho y de relaciones internacionales. En este trabajo se intentará plantear algunos de los temas puntuales que emergen de la Constitución en materia de derecho internacional público y los enlaces con el ordenamiento jus internacionalista. Estos son básicamente dos: la recepción del derecho internacional general y del derecho convencional. La reforma de 1994 ha modificado algunos de estos vínculos, apartándose de la Constitución madre que es la de los Estados Unidos, tanto en el texto como en la interpretación; e introduciendo algunas complicaciones, en mi opinión, innecesariamente...

Notas sobre un jurista olvidado : Julio Herrera y su intervención parlamentaria con motivo de la reforma del código penal en la República Argentina (1902-1903)

Resumen: Este trabajo pretende contribuir a una producción historiográfica en desarrollo en los últimos años cuyo objetivo es el estudio de los discursos y prácticas de un conjunto de juristas argentinos adherentes al positivismo penal que desde fines del siglo XIX impulsaron una serie de iniciativas de reforma penal y penitenciaria (creación y dirección de instituciones carcelarias y post penitenciarias; renovación de la producción científica y universitaria; elaboración de propuestas legislativas; etc.). En esta ocasión, analizaremos la figura de Julio Herrera, uno de los más distinguidos penalistas argentinos, aunque paradójicamente ignorado por los estudios históricos e histórico-jurídicos, centrándonos en su intervención parlamentaria con motivo del proyecto de reforma del código penal presentado en la Cámara de Senadores en 1903.

Ecos de la obra de José Manuel Estrada en el constitucionalismo brasileño de la Primeira República (1889-1930)

Tras la caída del emperador Pedro II, el modelo constitucional argentino inspirado en el pensamiento alberdiano ejerció una fuerte influencia sobre los próceres republicanos brasileños… y doctrinarios argentinos de ese momento, como José Manuel Estrada, fueron apreciados como autoridades intelectuales por los operadores jurídicos...