Gunnar, Why not remind all of us in what condition the boy was discovered. Ernest ... From: GUNNAR TOMASSON To: bibal@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 11,...
Ernest, here it is in the Penguin translation: Kari asked Hjalti to go with him to search for Njal's bone's - 'for everyone will accept your account and your...
Dear Gunnar: You may be the only living scholar who can do justice to this finally peaceful Icelandic reversal of a cultural paradigm. I beg you to consider...
Dear Ernest. Thank you for your kind words - one of these days I may live up to them. For, as indicated in the first of my current batch of emails to bibal,...
Dear Gunnar: To reinforce your own intuitions, why not consider Andrew George's composite Epic of Gilgamesh, assumbled from fragements of 73 copies from...
Thanks, Ernest - I just ordered the book from Amazon. Gunnar _____ From: bibal@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bibal@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ernest McClain Sent:...
1. I have long been persuaded that the the murder of Snorri Sturluson on the night of September 23, 1241 (autumnal equinox) – either the act itself or the...
Correction: For: 1. I have long been persuaded that the the murder of Snorri Sturluson on the night of September 23, 1241 (autumnal equinox) – either the...
The notice below was posted by Jack Sasson through his mailing list, which is read by a large number of biblical scholars throughout the world. Hopefully this...
... From: Ernest McClain To: bibal@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [bibal] Snorri Sturluson/William Shakespeare and Advent...
Sammy, It's nice to hear from you. The 15 and 100 are motivic under some circumstances, and it's obvious that I must read the Saga again. I noticed the numbers...
Thanks, David. Every rare "once in a while" I get inspired. Acts 20: A Protestant "fundamentalist" might find support here in the "ravening wolves" prophesy....
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Thanks, Petur. I've had thoughts similar to yours on the subject. What is interesting about all this is that Aristotle never (nor anyone else in that time as...
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John, I've always (for many decades) been impressed (and still am) by Aristotle's casual acceptance of "Ten-ness" as complete in itself. And of course my...
Blessaðir skrælingjar! Were having a great time together. After eating Ollas wonderful meals, David thinks he has died and gone to heaven. Our conference...
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Ernest, Yes, this question has troubled me too for decades, and I still hope that there is a "musical" solution to this notorious conundrum. Why would...
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Thank you, John. My own mind simply cannot function in this rarefied atmosphere. I assume that "a union of opposites" covers all instances and simplistically...
Hi All, I appreciate that this will be inaccessible to most list members, but perhaps will be of interest to some. Douai Abbey (Benedictine) regularly hosts...
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Ernest McClain <ernestmcc@...> wrote ... Ernest, the musical analogue here is beautiful. Yes, we are different people...
We may have posted this one before, or perhaps an earlier version. Nonetheless, it deserves a revisit. Here's a YouTube presentation of "Gilgamesh and the...
Duane, I just watched it twice and am going back to bed. The original was much funnier and more imaginative 5000 years ago--both tonally and graphically. I...
Ernest, Actually, any opposition varies with the particular natures of its extremes, which "localize it." Opposition is a dynamic kind of specification. The...
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David, I know this is a stretch but ... did you mean Lycro-anthropic? John In a message dated 8/16/2008 8:45:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, po@......
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John, What a felicitous locution!!!! Think what words can do!!!!! <<"Actually, any opposition varies with the particular natures of its extremes, which...
Some of you will find this article that I received from Jack Sasson to be of interest. Literary secrets lost in ancient times are still coming to light. This...
Ernest (and/or others), You may want to respond to Andy Lowings' query about the eight-petal motif around the doorway to the 150 year old shrine to Ezra in...
Duane, I can't comment until studying Ezra and Nehemiah again. I've always failed to make sense of them. But all this material is intrinsically interesting....
Dear Bibal friends David is now about to land in Northern Ireland after a night flight from Iceland. After having a conference in Njalusafn where he and I ...
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Here are pics 2 and 3 if you did not get them in the first posting. Petur...
