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Misquoting is a quick read
I believe I will finish it the first time tonight. It is a fascinating outline of textual criticism, something well-known to SEIQ, AA and CHC, but only partially known in fragments to me.
The first chapter basically outlines the landscape, with the introduction providing a interesting sketch of his personal journey. |
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Jeez, can you at least give a guy a chance to buy the book?
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Chapel, I have a question for you.
I was joking with the gentlemen here about reading a rebuttal to Misquoting, which I believe is entitled Misquotes in Misquoting Jesus. I can only assume that this work is somewhat, um, less than scholarly and is instead fluff intended to reassure paranoid evangelicals. Do you know anything about it? |
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One impact that this work has upon me is it shows how impossible it is to be a Renaissance Man, unlike it was during the turn of the century of the dawn of our industrial age.
I remember reading about a Russian who at the early 1900s was believed to know all math there was to know. However with the explosion of knowledge nobody can know one tenth of one hundredth that there is to know. Reading this work makes me want to become proficient in Classical Greek, which knowing myself I will initiate and then become bogged down and not quite get there. Additionally, doing so would require devotion of mental resources probably better used to help out my kids or my wife. Anyway, by the time I became useful, all I would be able to do would be able to follow the discussion more intelligently. To be able to actually add something, I would need some genius plus access to original copies of documents. So in other words, in most activities you and I are left as interested spectators of but a chosen few. That's frustrating. The feeling was well-described in Amadeus where the protagonist could see Mozart's genius, could appreciate it, but never could match it, and it left him feeling frustrated of being incapable of produce that level of beauty. |
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I don't understand how works are supposed to be constructed, but I understand there were traditional expectations that Mozart broke out of, brilliantly. My point is, after reviewing anything in depth, I always feel like a total idiot. |
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(Btw, there is no evidence that Salieri killed Mozart) Sorry for the double post. I have no idea whatsoever how that happened. The first was not complete, as you can tell. You have trouble understanding classical greek; I have trouble figuring out how to post on a message board. See, it can always be worse. |
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