4.0710 A Miscellany of Responses (5/98)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 13 Nov 90 09:43:04 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0710. Tuesday, 13 Nov 1990.


(1) Date: 07 Nov 90 14:2:00 EST (13 lines)
From: DAVID REIMER <REIMER@WLUCP6.BITNET>
Subject: Michael Cheney query

(2) Date: 07 Nov 90 17:36:56 EST (15 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: 4.0698 Greek Fonts; Arabic Word Processing

(3) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 1990 20:40 EST (15 lines)
From: ALAN COOPER <ACOOPER@UCBEH>
Subject: Re: 4.0698 Greek Fonts; Arabic Word Processing

(4) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 90 14:03:22 EST (15 lines)
From: "David R. Chesnutt" <N330004@UNIVSCVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0695 Queries

(5) Date: Sun, 04 Nov 90 11:31:08 EST (40 lines)
From: Steve Mason <SHLOMO@YORKVM1>
Subject: A face set toward Jerusalem

(1) --------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 07 Nov 90 14:2:00 EST
From: DAVID REIMER <REIMER@WLUCP6.BITNET>
Subject: Michael Cheney query

Re: access to archives concerning human rights violations. Another
"list" which may be well informed on this subject is: AMNESTY@JHUVM,
the Amnesty International list.

I hope this is of assistance.

David Reimer, Wilfrid Laurier University
REIMER@WLUCP6

(2) --------------------------------------------------------------26----
Date: 07 Nov 90 17:36:56 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: 4.0698 Greek Fonts; Arabic Word Processing

WP Greek *noch einmal*: If you dig *further* into the latest WP
newsletter, you will find their foreign `language modules', selling for
under $100 (buy your laser fonts from somebody else, softcraft or
fontmax). These provide screen drivers and keyboard layouts to do Greek
immediately. THe Font Editor WP also sells might get you there, but I
think you would be left designing your actual screen character set one
at a time, and somewhere around
eta-roughbreathing-circumflex-iotasubscript, you'd get a bit tired of
this. I use the WP module for screen and keyboard, but then switch to
Zondervan's Scripture Fonts to do actual laser printing because I like
their fonts better; the two products are compatible.
(3) --------------------------------------------------------------22----
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 1990 20:40 EST
From: ALAN COOPER <ACOOPER@UCBEH>
Subject: Re: 4.0698 Greek Fonts; Arabic Word Processing (5/96)

Concerning Greek screen fonts: has anyone out there used Scripture Fonts
from Zondervan Electronic Publishing (phone # 800-727-7759)? According
to an ad in WordPerfect Magazine, Oct/90, p. 24, the program "lets you
enter, edit, and print fully pointed Hebrew and properly accented Greek
for only $79.95." It works from within WP 5.0/5.1, and apparently
includes all the necessary screen and printer fonts. The ad does not
specify which graphicss cards and printers are supported. Any
information from fellow Humanists would be welcome.

Alan Cooper acooper@ucbeh
Hebrew Union College
(4) --------------------------------------------------------------22----
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 90 14:03:22 EST
From: "David R. Chesnutt" <N330004@UNIVSCVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0695 Queries (8/165)

RE: R. J. Shroyer's Query on Logic Programs

Prof. Roger Sullivan, Department of Philosophy, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 (803-777-4166) established a logic lab here
about two years ago. He developed a program called Logic Works which is
used in the lab. About 600 students take the course. The program runs
on IBM-compatible micros from a floppy disk. The program is used to
teach symbolic logic and appears to be very successful according to
reports from the technical support people in our Humanities Computing
Lab. Sullivan apparently does not have an e-mail address.

(5) --------------------------------------------------------------48----
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 90 11:31:08 EST
From: Steve Mason <SHLOMO@YORKVM1>
Subject: A face set toward Jerusalem

I'm sure that Herb Donow's reader will be flooded with replies from
eager New Testament types (we're all eager) responding to his query
about the lines from Gardner, _Resurrection_. This is one of our few
chances to show off! The source must surely be ("surely" being a term
used in NT studies when one lacks the evidence to prove a thing) the
Gospel of Luke, chapter 9, verse 51:

"When the days drew near for him (Jesus) to be received up,
he set his face to go to Jerusalem" (RSV; older translations --
"toward Jerusalem").

This is a dramatic high point in the Gospel of Luke. This author begins
his narrative in Jerusalem and has Jesus steadily moving toward the city
from Galilee. In his second volume, Acts, he has the Christian preaching
emanate from Jerusalem (Acts 1:8).

The follow-up to Luke 9:51 is 13:33, where Luke's Jesus says:

"Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day
following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from
Jerusalem."

>From the little that you gave us from Gardner (the play *requires* it
...), I suppose that this follow-up is the key to the citation: in both
Luke and Gardner, a sense of destiny/fate/ought-ness is evoked, maybe?

The interesting thing in Luke is that, even though Luke's Jesus
announces already in 9:51 his orientation toward Jerusalem, and although
the writer keeps reminding us that Jesus is headed toward the city
(13:22, 33), Jesus doesn't actually leave the Galilee until near the end
of the story (17:11); from then on, the pointers toward Jerusalem become
very frequent (18:31; 19:11, 28, 41).

I do hope that this helps.
Steve Mason
Humanities, York U.