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Being Wounded: Finitude and the Infinite in Jean Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa
Abstract Wounds appear throughout the writings of Jean‐Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa. Most well known in Chrétien's corpus is his description of prayer as a “wounded word,” a phrase that seeks to describe an ungraspable dimension of phenomenal life in which the contingency and groundlessness of finitude appear as gifts.
Thomas Breedlove
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Abstract In Part 1, we explored how Berkeley drew from Homeric literature and used literary techniques such as satire to challenge his “freethinking” philosophical opponents in “The Pineal Gland” story published in The Guardian in 1713. Echoing the grand tours Berkeley undertook in subsequent years, Part 1 and 2 both present a “gland tour” of some ...
Clare Marie Moriarty, Lisa Walters
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Are we "misreading" Paul? : Oral phenomena and their implication for the exegesis of Paul's letters [PDF]
A critical approach toward oral rhetorical qualities and styles can be traced as far back as Quintilian,1 if not before. Inquiry into the orality of Homer dates as far back as Josephus, but the work of Milman Parry and Albert B.
Tsang, Sam
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Many Paths to Explain the Cosmos [PDF]
The allegorical exegetic tradition was arguably the most popular form of literary criticism in antiquity. Amongst the ancient allegorists we encounter a variety of names and philosophic backgrounds spanning from Pherecydes of Syros to Proclus the ...
Grey, Safari
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From polemic to exegesis: The ancient philosophical commentary [PDF]
Commentary was an important vehicle for philosophical debate in late antiquity. Its antecedents lie in the rise of rational argumentation, polemical rivalry, literacy, and the canonization of texts.
Baltussen, J.
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Modern criticism has treated the so-called Mythographus Homericus (MH) primarily as a mythographic manual. The very name that has been imposed is an evident example of this. On the contrary, it has not been studied in depth as a work of Homeric exegesis.
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Introduction: Creating new worlds out of old texts [PDF]
Despite initial expectations that globalization would eradicate the need for geographical space and distance, "maps matter" today in ways that were unimaginable a mere two decades ago.
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Dinah and the Lady: Deuteronomic Rape Law in A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle
Milton Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 117-132, May 2020.
Tessa C. Parslow
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An unpublished poem on Porphyry [PDF]
This paper offers an editio princeps, an English translation and a commentary of an interesting epigram on Porphyry, the commentator of Aristotle. The epigram was transcribed in Vat. Reg.
Tomadaki, Maria
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Elemental Psychology And The Date Of Semonides-Of-Amorgos [PDF]
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Hubbard, Thomas K.
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