The Symbolism of Menorah, Hanukkah, Shemesh … and Noël (A Visual Semiotic Investigation)

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Visual semiotics studies how images, forms, signs, spatial arrangements, and recurring visual motifs communicate meaning. George Perendia's EHJ presentation is an interdisciplinary contribution that applies a visual-semiotic perspective to a cluster of religious and cultural symbols named in the presentation title: the menorah, Hanukkah, shemesh, and Noël.

Perendia's wider background crosses several disciplines. His published academic work is primarily in economics, macroeconomic modelling, and quantitative methods, while his earlier training and public profile also include fine art, computer graphics, and interests in ethics and the philosophy of knowledge. The conference presentation brings this cross-disciplinary background into a visual and symbolic investigation.

George Perendia is an independent researcher and consultant based in the United Kingdom. He holds a Ph.D. from London Metropolitan University in economics, with research involving macroeconomic business-cycle modelling, statistical and Bayesian estimation, monetary and fiscal policy, and simulation and forecasting. He also completed postgraduate study in financial and economic forecasting.

His research and professional background includes macroeconomics, quantitative modelling, financial and market risk, ethics, intersubjectivity, and the philosophy of knowledge. Public biographical material also documents an earlier background in conceptual art, a degree in Fine Art, and postgraduate work in computer graphics, giving his work an interdisciplinary relationship to visual analysis and computational methods.

The EHJ presentation is a visual-semiotic investigation and should be presented as an interdisciplinary contribution rather than as evidence of a conventional appointment in biblical or theological studies.