Dear Duane: I can't guess how much agreement there may be between Howard's response and mine, but here goes. Sarah as 10 years younger at 100:90 when she...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 1, 2007 9:50 am
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Dear Duane, Howard, Richard, and any friends who may remain: As often happens to me when I clarify a point for myself, the next day it leads me to something...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 1, 2007 5:11 pm
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Dear Duane, I've attached my views on the proper Scriptural context for Eve and Sarah. Just as Adam and Abraham are the archetypes for man, Eve and Sarah...
Howard, It's for Duane to decide whether either of us is posting anything useful to him, but your covering letter here makes a point I'd like to support, for...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 3, 2007 7:26 am
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Ernest, Here's part of my reply to your last email. I'm still trying to get a handle on the predicables relation to the matrix (right now, I'm toying with the ...
JohnHolthouse@...
Jul 3, 2007 1:03 pm
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Dear Professor, Thank you for your response. I get anxious when there is too much quiet at BIBAL after I post, and I think I hear the faint murmurings of...
John, Re. the following: Since Timaeus starts his disquisition with "What is that which always is and has no becoming; and what is that which is always...
John , I just got up and have NOT read your attachment, but this has to be right. That wholetone 9:8 was the ONLY reliable linear measure--all other small...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 3, 2007 2:50 pm
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Howard, The best thing about you is that you are irrepressible! That's a "gift from above." Here you make an initial error: there can be no "sin" until...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 3, 2007 3:01 pm
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Gunnar, In support of your general idea, I once shared on BIBAL a common experience I had when living in a 16th floor apartment near the college where I could...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 3, 2007 3:14 pm
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Howard, I understand your feelings when you say:\ ... The silence on my part is primarily because it takes time to assimilate what you are saying. I am a slow...
Duane, I'm happy to oblige in any way I can. Please keep in mind that a philological approach to understanding text (in this case the Hebrew word, Ehyeh) will...
Dear Bryan Carr (or anybody else who can help). I studied the Wikipedia entry on Homer, and Trojan War today trying to get more of an overview of the whole...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 4, 2007 1:02 am
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I'm replying here to my own question after again reading the Wikipedia entry by Gregory Nagy (a great Harvard scholar) outlining the whole tale as summarized...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 4, 2007 9:31 am
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... Although I watch this dialogue unfold with great fascination, it has never occurred to me that counting numbers or even securing intellectual insight...
Dear John Burnett in darkest Aftrica: Your thoughtful response here is powerfully to the point. You are asking, "What is the difference between great learning...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 4, 2007 11:19 am
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John, I agree that academic theology has been largely an anemic exercise with respect to developing any intimacy with God. The exile you speak about does not ...
Dear Howard: Thank you for clarifying a relation that must have been rather puzzling to some of our colleagues in BIBAL. Ernest ... From: Howard Schatz To:...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 4, 2007 12:34 pm
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John, I would be worried John if Ernest was saying that there is anything unintelligible about this exposition of yours, which is crystal clear. But I believe...
The word att / aett (direction / line of descendancy) is the same word in the Icelandic language. It reveales how important it is, and propably allways has...
Auglýsingastofa P...
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Jul 4, 2007 2:59 pm
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Peter: I favor your summary here. <<"I suggest the Bible is an end result of eons of the soul coming to terms with the perfectly brilliant magic of life...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 4, 2007 3:38 pm
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Hi all, actually I don't think one should accept that "academic theology has been largely an anemic exercise with respect to developing any intimacy with God"...
Well said -- my apologies! Howard ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of...
Richard, I'm not certain that it's either necessary or possible for BIBAL <<"to achieve any kind of synthesis of approach.">> We really seem to be...
Ernest McClain
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Jul 4, 2007 8:50 pm
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I am perplexed! There have been several contributions "Re Psalm 48 Revised" but I do not seem to have received the original posting! Could someone please send...
Dr Jim McMillan
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Jul 5, 2007 1:58 am
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Jim, tracing back the Yahoo history for this thread, the original posting was #545 Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:02 am, posted by Duane. So it's not a recent thing you've...
Hi all, here is a short summary of Grossberg's overall thoughts about the Songs of Ascent ("Centrifugal and Centripetal Structures in Biblical Poetry"), in...
Pete, Thanks for the compliment! My reply is in the attachment. John ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com....
JohnHolthouse@...
Jul 5, 2007 7:56 am
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Ernest, Thanks for that confirmation that I'm not totally off base. I continue to wrestle with the "categorial status of the differentia;" the problem seems ...
JohnHolthouse@...
Jul 5, 2007 8:15 am
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Dear Richard: For me the most valuable idea here is the contrast between <<"Centrifugal and Centripetal Structures">>l As I understand the arithmetic it has...
