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An Analytical Directory Of The Latin Endings, Thomas Nelson Winter
An Analytical Directory Of The Latin Endings, Thomas Nelson Winter
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
What reader of Latin has not paused while consciously trying the various possibilities on a final -a ending? Or marched in place momentarily while deciding that a final -is was nominative, not genitive? While English shows meaning by position-in-sequence, Latin shows meaning by case-ending and circumstance: where case-ending fails, circumstance is left.
This book deals with the circumstance. It is, then a backwards grammar. It assumes some familiarity with Latin, and familiarity with the cases. Its intended audience is intermediate Latin students, and teachers of intermediate Latin students.
This is a chapter from an unpublished work, Odds on Latin, a …
The Mechanical Problems In The Corpus Of Aristotle, Thomas Nelson Winter
The Mechanical Problems In The Corpus Of Aristotle, Thomas Nelson Winter
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
This is a translation of the Mechanical Problems from the TLG Greek text. That it survives in the corpus of Aristotle has been prima facie evidence that Aristotle was the author, although there are many problems with this attribution. At many places I found indications that the date of the work was apt for Aristotle. But eventually, I saw a connection in Vitruvius (as described in the brief essay included here as “Who Wrote the Mechanical Problems in the Corpus of Aristotle”) that led to a conviction of the author's true identity. To “cut to the chase,” I conclude that …
Review Of Out Of The Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Dead Sea Scrolls Research, By Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Sidnie White Crawford
Review Of Out Of The Cave: A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Dead Sea Scrolls Research, By Edna Ullmann-Margalit, Sidnie White Crawford
Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, a professor of the philosophy of science 1 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has turned her interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls into a fascinating study of the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. As she makes clear in the introduction (p. 17), Ullmann-Margalit makes no claim to expertise in the Scrolls, but is rather engaged in “second-order” scholarship; her subject is the study of the Scrolls. The book is divided into an introduction and three chapters: Chapter 1, “Writings and Ruins: The Essene Connection”; Chapter 2, “A Hard Look at ‘Hard Facts’: The Archaeology of Qumran”; …