5.0470 Rs: Corpora; Metaphors; Prophecies (3/60)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 25 Nov 1991 15:31:19 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0470. Monday, 25 Nov 1991.
(1) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 09:44:51 +0800 (11 lines)
From: Stig Johansson <Stig.Johansson@use.uio.no>
Subject: Questions on the Brown and LOB corpora
(2) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 91 13:54:13 IST (25 lines)
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0461 Rs: ... Metaphors; ... Prophecies
(3) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 06:07 IST (24 lines)
From: Marc Bregman <HPUBM@HUJIVM1>
Subject: Methodology as Metaphor
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 09:44:51 +0800
From: Stig Johansson <Stig.Johansson@use.uio.no>
Subject: Questions on the Brown and LOB corpora
The corpora are available through: ICAME, Norwegian Computing Centre for
the Humanities, P.O. Box 53, N-5027 Bergen, Norway. For more information,
contact Knut Hofland: FAFKH@NOBERGEN.BITNET. Note that the grammatically
tagged version of the Brown Corpus is NOT available from Bergen.
Stig Johansson
Oslo
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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 91 13:54:13 IST
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0461 Rs: ... Metaphors ... Prophecies
Judy Koren gave no source for her joke about Death in Hims, but she
can find the same story (here it is Death in Teheran) in a book by the
psychiatrist Victor Frenkl (inventor of a method called "logotherapy")
in which he describes the entire experience of life in the Nazi con-
centration camps with that joke as a parable: whenever there was a
choice of alternatives, one never knew which effort to save your life
might be the very one that would bring you to your death.
In his version, a rich man's servant meets Death while walking
in the garden. He runs to his master and pleads with him to give him
his fastest horse, so that he can run away and get to Teheran by
nightfall. The rich man accedes and continues walking; eventually he
meets Death and asks him, "Why did you frighten my servant that way?"
Death answers: "I didn't mean to frighten him. I merely
expressed surprise at seeing him here, when I have an appointment
with him tonight in Teheran."
David M. Schaps
Department of Classical Studies
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel
FAX: 972-3-347-601
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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 06:07 IST
From: Marc Bregman <HPUBM@HUJIVM1>
Subject: Methodology as Metaphor
I just wanted to thank all of those who responded to my original
query about Methodology as Metaphor. I am just about to set off
for a 3-4 week trip to the States, during which time I will be giving
the paper in which I have incorporated what I learned from the
very useful discussion (most of it hidden away in a "footnote" that
I shall open up only if someone questions my basic suggestion that
much of "methodology" is "metaphorical"). However, I do hope to
return more fully to this theme in the Methodological Introduction
to a monograph on which I am working in the area of Midrash.
For those that might be interested -- the title of the paper is:
"Methodological Reflections on the Analysis of Midrashic Texts"
and what I needed the Methodology as Metaphor material for is my
attempt to develop what I call an Archaeological Model for the
study of Midrashic Literature. I hope that by revealing this
I have not "blown the punch-line" for any fellow Humanist
who may be going to the Association of Jewish Studies
Conference in Boston in December.
Marc Bregman, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem