Ernest, what I find interesting here is the close link-up between 9:8, 10:9, 1.26 and 50:49, which I had never noticed before. What can be said is that by...
Pete Dello
pete_dello@...
Aug 1, 2006 8:04 am
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Duane, There is enough Jewish evidence to make us both correct from our own preferred viewpoints (that are not identical). I could not discern your own private...
ernest mcclain
ernestmcc@...
Aug 1, 2006 10:16 am
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Pete, I've missed a lot in my day. Thank you for the reminder that Jesus' feet were NAILED to the cross he carried. In Ginzberg's first chapter the Messiah is...
ernest mcclain
ernestmcc@...
Aug 1, 2006 10:25 am
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Hi ernest, good as eve to read your post, but I wonder about a couple of things... ... There are native cultures in which women do NOT typically suffer in ...
... duane, i am glad you spoke up about this because i was aware that you had explicitly said, "let's concentrate on the numbers" and NOT on "wisdom", but I...
responding to Ernest's claim that ... i have made the "library" claim myself; and it caught me offguard when Duane responded as he did at the time so stringly...
Hi Bryan, ... I agree - "book" suggests to the modern ear something written with more uniformity of style than the Hebrew Bible is, seeing the great diversity...
... this at least better summaraizes the effect of the Bible culturally. As Frye emphasizes in his "The Great Code," the bible is the defining book-- it almost...
Richard, You are undoubtedly right, including the musical analogy. Ernest ... From: "Richard Abbott" <richard_abbott@...> To:...
ernest mcclain
ernestmcc@...
Aug 1, 2006 5:47 pm
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Bryan, If I understood "hypertext" I might agree. But I believe Duane and I are caught in a semantic tangle: we don't mean the same thing by the same words....
ernest mcclain
ernestmcc@...
Aug 1, 2006 5:50 pm
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Bryan, ... as it stands is a coherent whole, as i think (though on somewhat different grounds), it is because it is a very different animal from being just a...
Richard, I like the way you go about this, but I still don't see the solution. If I could decode the great ages AND the census numbers I'd feel surer of my own...
ernest mcclain
ernestmcc@...
Aug 1, 2006 6:07 pm
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duane, your scheme for the organization of the Tanakh, which i have looked at before without realizing this, is not too different from some of the structures...
hey-- is anyone here good at formal logic? http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~girard/0.pdf.gz http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~girard/ "Take a musical analogy: the equal...
May I suggest that the answer to the question of whether the Bible is a book or a library is not a matter of 'either / or' but rather of 'both / and'. A good...
Jim and Doreen McMillan
jand@...
Aug 2, 2006 5:14 am
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Jim, this is a useful analogy but one must be careful how far it is pressed. THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA are a bit like the current series of books on HARRY...
... jim, your comparison w/ a series is quite apt in some ways.... the OT is a 'whole' in and of itself, but the NT complements it and makes it appear in a...
Bryan and Richard, "I seem to recall someone using the phrase "book of books" (perhaps Book rather than book) which maybe gets closer?" Maybe it's just a...
JohnHolthouse@...
Aug 2, 2006 7:18 am
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Bryan, " ...he also notes that sometimes Plato can give the impression of attempting a 'one-man bible;' i can't recall if he says the same of shakespeare ..." ...
JohnHolthouse@...
Aug 2, 2006 7:22 am
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Jim, Very true! If this weren't so then we couldn't enrich interpretation through a "line upon line, precept upon precept ..." approach. That the Bible can be...
JohnHolthouse@...
Aug 2, 2006 7:49 am
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Gentlemen, It seems to me that the word "book" most accurately describes only the physicality of the experience of pages bound together to make reference to...
henrikmann@...
Aug 2, 2006 2:11 pm
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John, Here you are calling attention to the extrme "plasticity" of language--contra Aristotle's hope that words might have either "one meaning" or "no...
ernest mcclain
ernestmcc@...
Aug 2, 2006 2:23 pm
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Yes, Henrik, by different authors in different languages, with less pretension to be speaking for deity, and a less obvious commitment to numerological trivia,...
ernest mcclain
ernestmcc@...
Aug 2, 2006 4:00 pm
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... Henrik, I think you are right to call attention to the physicality of the object "book," the structure of which has an impact upon us in ways we don't...
Henrik: ... In the first place, the Bible was not written and compiled from original manuscripts generated over various periods of time, originally written by...
Duane, are you saying this? The scribes took much older source material and knit it into an intricate logoprosodical pattern, which is a constant throughout...
Pete Dello
pete_dello@...
Aug 2, 2006 5:10 pm
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Dear Duane, I greatly appreciate the clarity and precision of your response. I seems to me that I agree with what you have written, but that I have...
henrikmann@...
Aug 2, 2006 5:18 pm
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Bryan, Here you make a trenchant contribution, precisely focused. It is normally difficult or impossible to refrain from overstating one's personal thesis. I...
ernest mcclain
ernestmcc@...
Aug 2, 2006 5:19 pm
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Henrik, there is a great mystery here and you have put you finger squarely on it. The Bible is like the incarnation itself, which cannot be explained...
