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My Dinner With Socrates: Literary Shaping Of Philosophy In Plato And Dostoevsky, Bob Simmons Jan 1993

My Dinner With Socrates: Literary Shaping Of Philosophy In Plato And Dostoevsky, Bob Simmons

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

This study examines the philosophical impact of literary techniques on Plato's dialogues. Incorporating phenomenological literary theory and illustrating Plato's dramatic form and imperfect philosophical argumentation in terms of similar usages in Dostoevsky's novels, it notes an intonation of reader interaction playing a significant role in the shaping of any philosophical message that is to be taken from the dialogues. It concludes that the dialogues, like Dostoevsky's novels, play with reader's expectations of the genres of "philosophy" and "literature" and the outcomes suitable to each to frustrate their readers' search for answers in the text and thus to engage them in …


Review Of: The Redaction Of The Books Of Esther: On Reading Composite Texts, By Michael V. Fox., Sidnie White Crawford Jan 1993

Review Of: The Redaction Of The Books Of Esther: On Reading Composite Texts, By Michael V. Fox., Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The Redaction of the Books of Esther: On Reading Composite Texts, by Michael V. Fox. SBLMS 40. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. Pp. x + 195. $29.95118.95 (18.95112.95 member).

Michael Fox's excellent monograph is an exemplary redaction critical study of several witnesses to the book of Esther. The goal of the study, according to the author, is "to advance our understanding of the redactional process in general by studying the development of two particular representatives of the Esther tradition, the AT (Alpha text) and the MT (p. 6). Both of these texts, Fox argues, are redactions of previous works: the …


Calvin’S Jewish Interlocutor: Christian Hebraism And Anti-Jewish Polemics During The Reformation, Stephen G. Burnett Jan 1993

Calvin’S Jewish Interlocutor: Christian Hebraism And Anti-Jewish Polemics During The Reformation, Stephen G. Burnett

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The nature of Calvin’s tractate Reponse to questions and objections of a certain Jew (Ad quaestiones et obiecta Judaei cuiusdam responsio) has long been a matter of some dispute among Calvin scholars. The nineteenth-century editors of Calvin’s works considered the book to be “meager and weak,” no doubt assuming that Calvin was responsible for composing both the questions and answers. In the twentieth century, scholars have been more inclined to see some evidence of an actual dispute between a Jew and a Christian in the book. Most notably Salo Baron suggested that the work reflects an exchange that Josel of …


Maimonides And Analogy, Stephen E. Lahey Jan 1993

Maimonides And Analogy, Stephen E. Lahey

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

Does the predication of a relation between two things imply that each of the relata have attributes predicable as well? In Volume I, Ch. 52 of The Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides discusses this, and he seems to imply that it does. I will argue, using Aristotle’s discussion of relativity as a predicate in Bk. 5, Ch. 15 of Metaphysics, that it does not, and I shall use this to discuss the consequent improved utility of an analogy Maimonides constructs between God and creatures in I.53. To do this, I shall need to recount a logic of analogy for Maimonides …


Excavations And Surveys In Israel 11, Israel Antiquities Authority Jan 1993

Excavations And Surveys In Israel 11, Israel Antiquities Authority

Excavations and Surveys in Israel (English Series)

Contents: The Bet She’an Excavation (1989–1991), Preface, Amir Drori [1], The Bet She’an Excavation (1989–1991), City Center (North); Excavations of the Hebrew University Expedition, Gideon Foerster and Yoram Tsafrir [3], The Bet She’an Excavation (1989–1991), City Center (South) and Tel Iẓtabba Area; Excavations of the Antiquities Authority Expedition, Rachel Bar-Nathan and Gaby Mazor [30], The Bet She’an Excavation (1989–1991), The Numismatic Material from the 1991 Season, Ariel Berman [46], Tel Bet She’an, Amicḥai Mazar [47], The Bet She’an Excavation (1989–1991), The Fortress, Ruth Gertwagen [49], The Bet She’an Excavation …


Socratic Elenchos And Maieusis In Euripides' Medea, Laurie K. Haight Jan 1993

Socratic Elenchos And Maieusis In Euripides' Medea, Laurie K. Haight

Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Three Aspects Of Spartan Kingship In Herodotus, Rosaria Vignolo Munson Jan 1993

Three Aspects Of Spartan Kingship In Herodotus, Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Classics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Haifa, Horvat Rosh Mayim, A-2089/1993, Yosef Solomon Jan 1993

Haifa, Horvat Rosh Mayim, A-2089/1993, Yosef Solomon

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In December 1993, a salvage excavation was conducted in Haifa, at the site of Horvat Rosh Mayim (Romema neighborhood, map. ref. 2005/7440), under the direction of Y. Solomon, in advance of planned residential construction at the site. Two excavation areas (A, B) were opened. Area A, located at the northwestern edge of the tell and along its descending slope, revealed four stratigraphic layers.


Three Deuteronomy Manuscripts From Cave 4, Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford Jan 1993

Three Deuteronomy Manuscripts From Cave 4, Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford

Department of Classics and Religious Studies: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to present three hitherto unpublished manuscripts (part of the twenty-one Deuteronomy manuscripts from Cave 4, Qumran): 4QDta, 4QDtd, and 4QDtg. These three manuscripts are placed together in this article because each has a particular feature of interest: 4QDta is the oldest of the Cave 4 Deuteronomy manuscripts; 4QDtd contains a very defective orthography; and 4QDtg presents a text identical to that of the Masoretic text. In the body of the article, each manuscript is presented separately, beginning with a description of the physical characteristics of each manuscript. This description is followed by a complete …


Plotinus And St. John Of The Cross: Concurrences And Divergencies, Elizabeth Wilhelmsen Jan 1993

Plotinus And St. John Of The Cross: Concurrences And Divergencies, Elizabeth Wilhelmsen

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

We propose to examine here two renowned champions of mysticism, Plotinus and St. John of the Cross. The former, the third-century Greek philosopher from Alexandria in northern Egypt, is the father of Neoplatonism. The latter, the sixteenth-century Castilian Carmelite, is known as reformer of his order, as theologian, as mystic, and as sublime poet of divine love. Both figures can be described, above all and specifically, as mystics: that is, as practitioners of mysticism and, at the same time, as theoreticians of mysticism. There is shared by both one dominating concern and objective: personal, experiential union with the transcendent Other, …


Incised Marks (Post-Firing) On Aegean Wares, Nicolle E. Hirschfeld Jan 1993

Incised Marks (Post-Firing) On Aegean Wares, Nicolle E. Hirschfeld

Classical Studies Faculty Research

The practice of incising potmarks into LH and LM III vessels after firing is not only distinctive but also a peculiar and limited Cypriot phenomenon. A close examination of the types of vessels marked in this way and their distribution should provide some clues to patterns of trade between the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. The work I present here is still very much in progress, and I welcome suggestions and criticisms.


Roman Criminal Law And Legal Narrative In The Neronian Books Of The Annals Of Tacitus, John Warren Thomas Jan 1993

Roman Criminal Law And Legal Narrative In The Neronian Books Of The Annals Of Tacitus, John Warren Thomas

Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Channels Of Imperishable Fire: The Christian Mystical Allegories Of Dioscorus Of Aphrodito, Clement A. Kuehn Jan 1993

Channels Of Imperishable Fire: The Christian Mystical Allegories Of Dioscorus Of Aphrodito, Clement A. Kuehn

Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Herakleia Trachinia In The Archidamian War, Mychal P. Angelos Jan 1993

Herakleia Trachinia In The Archidamian War, Mychal P. Angelos

Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Papyrology And Byzantine Historiography, James G. Keenan Jan 1993

Papyrology And Byzantine Historiography, James G. Keenan

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Egypt of late antiquity, often referred to as Byzantine Egypt, was for years the outcast of papyrological studies. It is only recently, partly in the wake of studies on the reign of Diocletian and his fourth-century successors, that the keen interest of papyrologists and historians in Egypt of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods has carried over into the later period. Perhaps responsible for the old indifference was, as Remondon suggested a generation ago, the scholar's prejudice against those periods that are judged decadent; or, to put the matter as Johan Huizinga did in the preface to his 1919 classic, The …


E. Fantham, Lucan. De Bello Civili (Cambridge 1992), John F. Makowski Jan 1993

E. Fantham, Lucan. De Bello Civili (Cambridge 1992), John F. Makowski

Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This is a book review of Elaine Fantham's Lucan: De Bello Civili, II.