Subject: | | Re: Comments, anyone..., Song of Songs |
From: | | Vivario <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 16 Mar 2000 09:10:46 EST567_US-ASCII As Gilda Radner would say on Saturday Night Live, "Never mind". Upon further enlargement of my negative of the "Kilfenora Four", I think the evidence is firmly in the camp of John Hunt and the clerics' "protuberances" are, in fact, "hands clasped in a devotional attitude in front of them". (My first impression, upon seeing the figures high up on the window was of clerics playing "leap frog" over other people/animals). But - at least - we have a pretty good glimpse of the tonsure. [...]38_16Mar200009:10:[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Mon, 27 Mar 2000 06:32:25 -0800 |
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> In a message dated 03/26/2000 11:11:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> << What about Jewish Bibles (the OT)? When Augustine refers to "the books of
> the
> Jews," I get a sense that he has a discrete set of books in mind.
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> That is the whole point, though not very clear. A set of books sitting on a
> shelf much like the six or so volumes of _Readings in Western Civilization_
> versus one bound volume. IOW when did the Bible become a singular object, as
> a opposed to a theoretical concept? I'm with his suppleness in seeing it as
> a rather recent development.
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> mark
Read Cassiodorus. "Codex" means one volume, a "binder" to collect
several works (or books), if need be; Troncarelli elucidated this
codicological point in his works on Cassiodorus. Luciana
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