Mr. Dog writes: [snip] ... I have no idea whether you grasp anything. A religious man lives solely for a god. In the ancient and Medieval times, human beings...
Dear Gary, --This is from your message prior to the one I just responded to. I see that you address the question of "experience" below. I'll add a few more ...
Mr. Pehme, I believe you touch on some important issues here, but if you will permit me, I would like to offer some thoughts and reflections of my own that may...
Mr. Dog writes: [snip] ... There is nothing romanticized about what I said. All accounts of the Middle Ages and the ancient world, including Strauss's...
Gary: Pardon me for taking the long way around with this, but I actually intend to answer far more that the simple reversal of the question I put to you. As I...
... --Just thought it might be worthwhile to point out Mr. Pehme's nonsense. Man as man has never lived solely for a god. This is an ad hoc construction used...
Dear Dan, As a friend recently put it to me, Mr. Pehme is intellectually dishonest. The most egregious recent example is his deliberate misreading of Genesis...
... Nonsense. Acta non verba. What does Abraham do? The action, the realization, has its own argument; that is at the heart of Strauss's reading of texts. ...
Listmembers, I bring news which will have many of you reaching for your eyedrops. It seems that the University of California Press has digitized some of it's...
Here's a small something. Plz forgive if this also is late to the party: 3/03/04 - Pangle to Texas From the Chronicle of Higher Education (2/20/04, available...
... the wind ... the ... absence of ... word for ... ancient China ... absence of a ... Hebrews see ... god, but the ... reason ... only ... law. If they ... ...
... an ... if ... interpretation ... compare all ... interpreted. What ... interpretation ... than ... Prejudice with regard to the Bible is on the side of...
Thank you for the story Patrick. I have heard that in addition to Pangle and his wife Lorraine one other 'straussian' will be joining them at the department in...
David North
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Mar 4, 2004 11:01 pm
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Dear Tim, I know you don't seem to be able to get around to my posts, but I was wondering if we could take one step back. Since interpreting Maimonides has...
Tim Kennelly writes: [snip] ... Of course, it is much better to recover what was before, because modernity is just wrong about so much, including, I might add,...
Mr. Kennelly, ... Because they didn't speak sanskrit. (You had to have seen that answer coming.) Indeed, even a clear teaching about an after life ... ...
"No One's gonna tell _me_ how to live!" Like the Apikores of old, both Mr Pehme's Ethics and his Metaphysics are designed to prevent God from claiming his life...
... was wondering if we could take one step back. Since interpreting Maimonides has proven to be so contentious, could you say or restate in what sense you...
Tim, Thank you for responding. If I can go for two: In what sense then are you saying that if some Biblical passages contend that God has a body then the Bible...
... The difficulty is not that the Bible is contrary to reason, but that Mr. Dog is and people like him are, because their notion of revelation is contrary to...
Dear Mr. Wilfinger, Please find below an effort by Mr. Pehme to co-opt you, by implication, into opposing the classical Jewish understanding of the Torah,...
"By the end of the Old Testament, the Jews have done practically every bad act there is and in the end they are destroyed, with ten tribes gone, the rest...
... Let's not forget what happens next. After Israel is Hellenized, with a number of Greek-like kings, including the Herods, the Romans impose their will on...
Dear Mr. Fletcher, --Remain curious, and hope you'll find an opportunity to respond. You're welcome, btw, for the citation in response to your question. Yours...
Icastes, You've got your players, actions, and beliefs all turned around. Perhaps you should buy a program (even "Ancient Israel for Dummies" would help). It...
Gary, If I understand Mr. Pehme's references to my position correctly, what he appears to be referring to as a bug is actually a very good design element. ;-) ...
Dear David, Thank you very much for your response. I few reflections and a couple of follow-ups, if I may. What you say about the difference between divine...
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