| 2010/03/18 | Andrew Bostom responds to Tarek Fatah's identity dance (Covenant Zone) |  |
Published 2010/03/18 09:45:00
... Saudi Korans that are widely distributed in the West liberally use the word "Jew" as the English translation for less specific epithets in the original Arabic. But he says this with the apparent desire to avoid the question of whether there are not passages in the Arabic Koran that are explicitly anti-Jewish. And this is what Andrew Bostom is calling Fatah to account for, as quoted... Source : Covenant Zone (subscribe) Explore : Canada, Fatah, Palestinian Authority, World |
| 2010/03/17 | Design Inspiration (Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter) | |
Published 2010/03/17 14:41:00
... accepted. I think it's a brilliant concept, but perhaps it's just not right for the craft industry publishing focus. Or maybe I'm totally delusional. The jury is still out on that one! I just put an 'inspiration board' up in my studio. I'm going to fill it with whatever is spinning my design wheels at any moment. I usually just let everything simmer in my head, but lately it feels a... Source : Margot Potter The Impatient Crafter (subscribe) Explore : Artists, Billie Holiday, Crafts, Jazz, Music |
| 2010/03/14 | Stephen Karcher: I Ching, the Symbolic Life ('Answers' I Ching blog) | |
Published 2010/03/14 22:48:17
... of imagery from the text with imagery from the hexagrams? structural relationships. There?s no translation set apart from the rest of the text; instead, there are excerpts and improvisations on the translation woven into the interpretation of the structures. The joy of discovering structural relationships within the Yijing is the way they can deepen and enrich readings,... Source : 'Answers' I Ching blog (subscribe) |
| 2010/03/14 | Early Church Fathers Writings (The Common Room) | |
Published 2010/03/14 12:00:00
... with the picture presented by the NT, while at the same time posing questions for many traditional interpretations of this first period of the Church's life. Fragments of the Didache were found at Oxyrhyncus (P. Oxy 1782) from the fourth century and in coptic translation (P. Lond. Or. 9271) from 3/4th century. Traces of the use of this text, and the high regard it enjoyed, are... Source : The Common Room (subscribe) Explore : Society blogs |
| 2010/03/08 | China denies it's in any talks with Google, wonders why (BetaNews) | |
Published 2010/03/08 17:31:07
... China could prosecute Google's complaint. The Xinhua report itself (not a Google English-language translation of the report) states the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's position that Google never filed a complaint in the first place. Last Tuesday, Xinhua quoted a spokesperson for a key Chinese political advisory body, Zhao Qizheng, as strongly denying Google's... Source : BetaNews (subscribe) Explore : Google, National Security Agency, Technology |
| 2010/03/06 | David Zwirner Presents The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb's Book of Genesis (Artdaily) | |
Published 2010/03/06 03:53:13
... detail and storytelling, rendered frame by frame in meticulous comic book fashion. With a literal interpretation primarily assembled from translations of Robert Alter and the King James Bible, Crumb reintroduces us to the bountiful tree lined garden of Adam and Eve, the mass Source : Artdaily (subscribe) |
| 2010/03/05 | Another Haggadah? (Emes Ve-Emunah) | |
Published 2010/03/05 13:00:00
It?s that time of year again. Pesach is beginning to be on everyone?s mind. I will kick things off here with a review of a new Haggadah. Aside from the Siddur and the Chumash if there is one Sefer that has been published more than any other it is the Haggadah Shel Pesach. No other Sefer comes close to it. There are so many versions and interpretations of the Haggadah it would take a... Source : Emes Ve-Emunah (subscribe) |
| 2010/03/02 | The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb?s Book of Genesis (ArtCal) | |
Published 2010/03/02 00:37:39
... detail and storytelling, rendered frame by frame in meticulous comic book fashion. With a literal interpretation primarily assembled from translations of Robert Alter and the King James Bible, Crumb reintroduces us to the bountiful tree lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and... Source : ArtCal (subscribe) Explore : Cartoonists, Comic book artists, Comics, R. Crumb, Robert Crumb |
| 2010/02/28 | PETITION: Demand for withdrawal of a flawed book on Hindu History published by PENGUIN (IntelliBriefs) | |
Published 2010/02/28 04:41:00
... Hindus: An Alternative History? is rife with numerous errors in its historical facts and Sanskrit translations. These errors and misrepresentations are bound and perhaps intended to mislead students of Indian and Hindu history. Throughout the book, Doniger analyzes revered Hindu Gods and Goddess using her widely discredited psychosexual Freudian theories that modern, humanistic... Source : IntelliBriefs (subscribe) |
| 2010/02/24 | Prof. Saul Lieberman on Women's Ordination (Hirhurim - Musings) | |
Published 2010/02/24 03:32:00
I have obtained permission to post the entire text of Prof. Saul Lieberman 's responsum regarding women's rabbis. The responsum in original Hebrew handwriting was first published in Tomeikh Ka-Halakhah vol. 1 (Union for Traditional Judaism, 1986), along with an English translation by Rabbi Wayne Allen . The following is the English translation: With the help of God, May He be... Source : Hirhurim - Musings (subscribe) Explore : Judaism |
| 2010/02/12 | Some more book notes (biblicalia) | |
Published 2010/02/12 07:08:33
I have received a copy of The Philokalia: A Second Volume of Selected Readings, the continuation of the translation of Constantine Cavarnos. As in the case of the previous volume, the translation style is lucid and yet solid. The texts included come from the first, second, and fifth volumes of the Greek Philokalia. [...] Source : biblicalia (subscribe) |
| 2010/02/08 | As Health Care Summit Nears, One Doctor Writes from the Front Lines (MediaBistro.com) | |
Published 2010/02/08 16:23:08
Yesterday President Barack Obama made headlines by calling for a televised, bi-partisan meeting about the future of health care in this country. As the debate nears, we interviewed an author who works on the front lines of health care. Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was editor and author Danielle Ofri (pictured). She discussed her new book, " Medicine in Translation "--a literary... Source : MediaBistro.com (subscribe) Explore : Books, Fine Arts |
| 2010/02/06 | The Latin introduction to the Coptic catena published by Paul de Lagarde (Roger Pearse) | |
Published 2010/02/06 22:58:11
The translator of the fragments of Eusebius found in the Coptic catena published by Paul de Lagarde ? I?m never sure whether to write ?de Lagarde? or ?De Lagarde? ? has asked for a translation into English of his preface, written in Latin. I have hastily asked Andrew Eastbourne for a construe, and he has kindly said he will produce [...] Source : Roger Pearse (subscribe) |
| 2010/02/04 | Fish Heads, Fish Heads, Rolly Polly Fish Heads,... (PALAEOBLOG) | |
Published 2010/02/04 01:23:00
Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation . 2010. R. S. Sansom, et al. Nature, published online 31 January. Credit: Mark Purnell, Rob Sansom, Sarah Gabbott, University of Leicester These are three rotting heads. A sequence of images showing how the characteristic features of the body of amphioxus, a close living relative of vertebrates, change during... Source : PALAEOBLOG (subscribe) Explore : Canada |
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