Subject: | | Re: Comments, anyone..., Song of Songs |
From: | | Vivario <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 09 Mar 2000 20:18:17 -0500 (EST)594_us-ascii Someone mentioned that these figures have odd tonsures. Since the precise nature of the celtic tonsure seems still to be very much an issue in some circles, are any of the photos good enough to tell us what the tonsures look like? meg
> I can't think of any other flashing clerics, but there are a few male > Sheelas, or rather Sean-na-gigs: at Ballycloghduff in West Meath on > the gatepost of an old mill, at Grey Abbey in Co Down, and at Margam > in Wales. To my knowledge, the literature has largely ignored these > male figures. [...]44_09Mar200020:18:17-0500(EST)[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.
>
> 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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