David, In the kindergarten of my own imagination these biblical horns sometimes allude to the "peaks" of the Holy Mountain tables. And because their trumpets...
Ernest McClain
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Oct 1, 2006 8:42 am
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This book review may be of interest to some in the BIBAL Forum in light of recent remarks on the same topic with respect to the Bible. Unfortunately, the...
dear Duane, it's a humbling experience to read this incredibly helpful mssg from you as you continue to go thru difficult treatment. Your discussion here, in...
Dear Duane, Ken Macht, and other friends: Try this mode of thinking for whatever it may be worth to you. I let myself wonder if this argument "explains" the 48...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 2, 2006 2:10 am
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Naturally I omitted a crucial fact concerning 48. The SAME sequence is defined by Willi Apel in the Harvard Dictionary of Music (vol. 1) inslightly smaller...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 2, 2006 2:30 am
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Ernest, I'm working up something up that might help. It involves talking about metaphor and simile rather than the musical terminology. Aristotle's observation...
JohnHolthouse@...
Oct 2, 2006 1:27 pm
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And John, I'm leaving that for you to polish. Like Duane, I'm skittish about handling philosophical discourse for it has its own intracacy. I follow your...
Ernest McClain
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Oct 2, 2006 4:33 pm
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Hi Ernest and all, ... I let myself wonder if this argument "explains" the 48 "cities of refuge" given the Levites but distributed throughout the land of the ...
Thank you Richard. These anomolies have puzzled me, and I'm very glad to have your summary. So far I have no clues beyond what I sent you. But it is NOT really...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 2, 2006 9:08 pm
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Hi Richard, I am still struggling to catch up with you so as to do my part to keep this discussion moving. I am pleased with your decision to take a closer...
Duane, The more carefully you respond to Richard's points the more uncertain I become about your effort to "over-articulate" the structure--quite similar to...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 3, 2006 9:01 am
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Duane: In my earlier posting a while ago I was struggling with ideas that seem clearer now after another nap. 1. A great amount of human energy is invested in...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 3, 2006 1:18 pm
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Duane, ... I am pleased with your decision to take a closer look at the pdf file on Genesis 1:1-13. I am revising my file on this text to be uploaded to the...
... The same way Mozart did in the presence of Haydn: with their noses. ;) Best wishes, John Wheeler P.S.: I'll be stopping the Daily Digest for about two...
Your a good lad JohnW. I like that, although I thought it was Haydn who nosed his way to a impossible chord. Probably how he got his pollup! Cheers pete From:...
Pete Dello
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Oct 3, 2006 11:10 pm
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Ernest, I'm still working things out because I got sidetracked by your conjunction of rationalism with gnosticism. An interesting problem, especially when ...
JohnHolthouse@...
Oct 6, 2006 10:41 am
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Dear Ernest, David, JohnH, Pete, Bryan, et al: I need your help. I received a telephone call at 7:30 this morning from Prof. Mishael Caspi who is in charge of...
Duane, this couldn't suit me better as it overlaps the paper I'm preparing with Dumbrill. I propose to buttress your EVE almost entirely with Parpola's...
Ernest McClain
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Oct 7, 2006 8:53 am
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Duane, it was really encouraging to hear from you! I don't know how you keep going in the face of so much treatment, especially when people feel the need to...
David, dear friend and vigorous protagonist, whatever you find in gematria, Eve is ever and always also the Virgin 2 when abstracted from Adam's rib to serve...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 7, 2006 11:08 am
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Ernest, this is brilliant! If we both fight the wars in our own ways, pausing every so often to cast an angry javelin at each other, something good may come...
Duane, The only philosophical garnish that I think you would need is this: "What is wisest? Number; then after that, he who first imposed names on things." ...
JohnHolthouse@...
Oct 7, 2006 12:39 pm
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Thank you David. And the verse is passionate, eloquent, and hits the bulls eye in the precise center. If we don't struggle here, who will bother with...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 7, 2006 12:40 pm
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Sorry, David, I hit delete instead of send. I shouldn't really "shoot from the hip." Ernest ... From: Ernest McClain To: bibal@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday,...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 7, 2006 12:46 pm
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David, The very LEAST that you are demonstrating is that no matter how passionately we try, the "logic" of the Bible exceeds any depth that we can reach with...
Ernest McClain
ernestmcc@...
Oct 7, 2006 1:08 pm
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Ernest, one danger, which you identify, is shooting arrows in all directions at once. Another danger is grabbing some piece of meticulously crafted lore and...
Ernest, Thank you for the quick response. At the moment I am primarily concerned with stating as clearly and briefly as possible what I am trying to do in the...
... In 22 gematria aleph-yodh-shin ( = 'man') adds up to 32, while aleph-shin-he ( = 'woman') adds up to 27. Interesting that 32 x 27 = 864. And while you are...
... This is a very different reading of the person of Eve from what I see in the feminist literature on Eve, which seems to be building an interpretation based...
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