medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Quoting richard landes <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > http://www.vision.org/jrnl/0308/danielden.html
>
> interesting... and just the kind of sunday school stuff that comes from
> people who want to protect the text as prophetic.
VKI: I only want to protect the text as a subject of study in its own right.
of course porphyry's attack on daniel was precisely to undermine the
authenticity of daniel as VKI complains.
VKI: Whoa! I said nothing about Porphyry or Daniel!
and i'll even grant that some modern scholarship
> does the same. but to make all modern scholarship that looks at
> questions of authorship and time of composition an attack on the
> authenticity and a rejection of studying the content of the text
> doesn't make sense to me.
VKI: If I generalized that much, I erred. In serious terms, I only want to
bypass what has traditionally been called 'introduction' and look at the text
in itself just as Harold Bloom, or Jacques Derrida would look at a piece of
poetry. Then armed with such analysis, look at the [now an anachronistic term]
introductory matters as a New Historicist might--without an Eurocentric
Mega-narrative.
VKI: Now returning to Medieval Religion. We can study 'Everyman' without any
reference to who wrote it, can't we?
>
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