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DabarYahweh is one of the few dominant Hebrew names or titles of God in the Bible, although not often enough recognized as such. This beautiful name is introduced as late as Genesis 15:1 where the Word of God is in a vision to Abraham and speaks to him (compare: Elohim occurs in Genesis 1:1, YHWH Elohim in 2:4, and Elyon in 14:18).

God speaks often to people and in many different ways. The Word of God, however, typically conveys formal messages and mostly to prophets. The Word of God gains a pivotal status in the New Testament when he "becomes flesh" in Jesus Christ, now known by the Greek translation Logos.

Where some names of God come uniquely from rare roots, the names Elyon and Dabar come from roots that have truly vast domains of application. The word dabar, however, outdoes even elyon and is a universe of meaning in itself:

The verb דבר (dabar) means to formalize: to deliberately establish and pronounce something's name or definition. This causes the thing to become "real" in the mind of whoever understands this word, name or definition, and this in turn explains why all of creation was spoken into being, and Man in turn "named" all the animals by their name and finally his Wife by hers (Genesis 2:19-23). This principle sits at the base of nominal reasoning and thus human awareness and ultimately Information Technology.

Noun דבר (dabar) means word. It also means "thing" since the naming of a thing causes the experienced reality of the thing. All thus created "things" together form the whole of experienceable reality, which in turn is called the Word of God.

Noun דבר (deber) describes any deadly pestilence, which is a "word" that breaks unstable compounds apart. In nature this occurs via the Weak Nuclear Force. The ability of unstable compounds to break apart sits at the heart of all progress and thus all reality.

The rare noun דבר (dober), refers to a pasture; probably a well-defined fenced-in field upon which sheep graze. Figuratively this word obviously refers to some specific Holy Book from which a community feeds (the books of the Bible originated as separate works, with their separate adherers). Noun דברה (dibra) means matter or issue, and the similar noun דבורה (deborah) describes the bee (this probably because bees make honey, and "milk and honey" denote essential sustenance). The noun דביר (debir) was a nickname for the Holy of Holies and means "place of the word".

The noun מדבר (midbar) literally means "place of wording" and is used once to mean mouth and 270 times to mean wilderness, and because a wilderness is a place without cultivation, any cultivation needs to spring up in a wilderness. And anybody serious about the quest for true insight needs to leave the culture (or religion) of his heritage behind and spend a stint in the uncharted wild. All major players in the Bible did so.

Most people think that Jesus has anything to do with a religion or with a select group of followers or whatever, but that is utter nonsense. Jesus is the Word in the flesh, and thus embodies humanity's formal understanding of everything. Or as Paul puts it: "The summing up of all things in Christ" (Ephesians 1:10).

Christ gives understanding in all things (2 Timothy 2:7). But nobody who modestly calls himself Knower Of All Things automatically knows all things. Likewise, someone who calls himself a Christian, who utters all the right formulas and is on all the right mailing lists, is not automatically a follower of Christ. A follower of the Word of God does not restrict himself in any way (Galatians 3:28). He looks at all things with quiet respect but personifies only with the howling infinite of space and all that is therein.

By establishing a repository, legal entities are provided with a reliable environment for the development and maintenance of collections of digital materials through the supported functionalities of permanent storage and dissemination of various digital objects.

The DABAR system enables legal entities - repository owners to deal with content without worrying about technological challenges associated with the establishment and maintenance of the repository system. Repository owners get an installed and maintained repository solution for long-term storage and dissemination on their Internet domain.

DABAR was put into production on 17 August 2015. Architecture of the DABAR system is designed in such a way that it can support storage of a wide range of digital objects: theses and diploma theses, doctoral theses and scientific master's theses, papers published in journals and proceedings, books and chapters in books, data sets, multimedia (photos, audio, audio-visual content), educational content and other types of documents. More detailed information is available on the site Supported digital objects in DABAR.

Objects are assigned a unique permanent identifier URN:NBN upon publication. Also, all objects are described by a rich and nationally aligned set of metadata. Each repository has basic and advanced search functionality, and repository content is indexed in search engines such as Google Scholar and OpenAIRE. Repository owners can also include their repositories in various directories such as OpenDOAR or re3data. Homepage dabar.srce.hr contains the central search engine for searching the contents of all repositories in the DABAR system.

Object metadata are available through the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The OAI-MPH repository interface in the DABAR system is aligned with the OpenAIRE Guidelines for institutional and thematic Repository and OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Archives.

Metadata of objects stored in DABAR are available through standard schemas Dublin Core, DataCite and Metadata Object Description Schema. Data in DABAR are stored in standard and recommended formats that enable long-term data storage and easier reuse.

Diversification of the genus Telestes (Cyprinidae), endemic to the Euro-Mediterranean biogeographic subregion, mirrored an evolutionary footprint of complex biogeographical history. Hence, hidden diversity and noticeably high endemicity of freshwater ichthyofauna were discovered in the Dinaric karst on the Balkan Peninsula. One such example includes two steno-endemic Dinaric karst (Bosnia and Herzegovina) cyprinid species, Telestes dabar and T. metohiensis. Although the conservation status of T. metohiensis has been evaluated, T. dabar from Dabarsko Polje has not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List due to its taxonomically ambiguous position and data deficiencies. Our first aim was to evaluate the resolution of taxonomic ambiguities of the two putative species, T. dabar and T. metohiensis, by the complementary use of two mitochondrial DNA markers (cytb and COI mtDNA). The results clearly demonstrated the evolutionary independence of T. dabar (Dabarsko Polje) and T. metohiensis (Nevesinjsko Polje) and confirmed the usefulness of both markers for assessing the species borders. In addition, population structure of putative T. dabar was analyzed using cytb and COI mtDNA and morphological parameters (linear measurements and landmark-based geometric morphometric data). A high genetic admixture and homogeneity in T. dabar from Dabarsko Polje were found and confirmed using both morphometric approaches as no statistically significant differences were consistently registered between different samples.

We thank Dr. Massimo Scandura and the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which significantly improved the manuscript quality. We are also grateful to Nemanja Gojkovic for language editing and comments on the early version on the manuscript.

N2 - Diversification of the genus Telestes (Cyprinidae), endemic to the Euro-Mediterranean biogeographic subregion, mirrored an evolutionary footprint of complex biogeographical history. Hence, hidden diversity and noticeably high endemicity of freshwater ichthyofauna were discovered in the Dinaric karst on the Balkan Peninsula. One such example includes two steno-endemic Dinaric karst (Bosnia and Herzegovina) cyprinid species, Telestes dabar and T. metohiensis. Although the conservation status of T. metohiensis has been evaluated, T. dabar from Dabarsko Polje has not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List due to its taxonomically ambiguous position and data deficiencies. Our first aim was to evaluate the resolution of taxonomic ambiguities of the two putative species, T. dabar and T. metohiensis, by the complementary use of two mitochondrial DNA markers (cytb and COI mtDNA). The results clearly demonstrated the evolutionary independence of T. dabar (Dabarsko Polje) and T. metohiensis (Nevesinjsko Polje) and confirmed the usefulness of both markers for assessing the species borders. In addition, population structure of putative T. dabar was analyzed using cytb and COI mtDNA and morphological parameters (linear measurements and landmark-based geometric morphometric data). A high genetic admixture and homogeneity in T. dabar from Dabarsko Polje were found and confirmed using both morphometric approaches as no statistically significant differences were consistently registered between different samples.