7.0020 Qs: Music Garden; Jawbone; Spanish Job; PHI (4/71)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 21 May 1993 11:16:34 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0020. Friday, 21 May 1993.
(1) Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 12:20:18 +0100 (27 lines)
From: "David Zeitlyn, Soc. & Cult. Anthropology,
Subject: ethnomusicological gardening Qn for HUmanist
(2) Date: Thu, 20 May 93 11:46:15 EDT (25 lines)
From: Sarah L. Higley <slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Jawbone in Judges
(3) Date: 18 May 93, 16:56:30 EST (5 lines)
From: ASANDERS at UMAB
(4) Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 13:39:08 -0500 (EST) (14 lines)
From: Evelyn Ehrlich <EHRLICHE@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu>
Subject: PHI
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Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 12:20:18 +0100
From: "David Zeitlyn, Soc. & Cult. Anthropology,
Subject: ethnomusicological gardening Qn for HUmanist
To the readers of Humanist and Music-l
Hello,
I am writing on behalf of a colleague, Helen La Rue, who is not yet connected
to Email to ask for suggestions for an ethnomusicological garden that she is
planning behind the Balfour Building of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The
Balfour building houses a collection of musical instruments from all round the
world.
The idea is to make a garden that is both attractive to the eye, and to follow
a muscialogical theme - so suggestions are welcome for plants that are either
used in the making of musical instruments - we already have arunda donax the
source of the reed for oboes, clarinets, bagpipes etc
or
plants whose names have musical allusions - all the trumpet named flowers etc.
We need plants that are hardy to survive a central/southern English climate
without the benefits of hothouses. Some +/- sheltered walls are available
however.
Also, if you suggest an obscure plant please suggest sources!
I look forward to some entertaining suggestions
Many thanks in advance for your help
David Zeitlyn
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Date: Thu, 20 May 93 11:46:15 EDT
From: Sarah L. Higley <slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Jawbone in Judges
Judges 15:15-17:
[Sampson] found the jawbone of an ass, all raw, and picked it up and
slew a thousand men. He made this saying:
With the jaw-bone of an ass I have flayed them like asses;
with the jaw-bone of an ass I have slain a thousand men.
What is the critical consensus on this translation of "Lehi" amongst
Biblical scholars? I have heard that "jawbone" might be a
mistranslation. "Lehi" is the word for both "jawbone" and a place name.
Is there much commentary about this passage? Sampson goes on to name
the place of slaughter _Ramath-lehi_ or "Jawbone Hill." Could this be a
pun? What interpretations other than "jawbone" have been suggested? On
the one hand, the vivid image of Sampson killing a whole army with a
jawbone is an entrenched and famous one, but it's also so ... weird. Am
I right in assuming that there is some perplexity about this passage?
Sarah Higley slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu
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Date: 18 May 93, 16:56:30 EST
From: ASANDERS at UMAB
Goucher College has an opening for full-time Spanish instructor. Please
contact Linda Koski (410-337-6237) as soon as possible.
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Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 13:39:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Evelyn Ehrlich <EHRLICHE@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu>
Subject: PHI
Does anyone have the address for the Packard Humanities Institute?
Please address your answer to me personally, not to the list. Thank
you.
Evelyn Ehrlich
Humanities Bibliographer
New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South
New York, New York 10012
(212) 998-2568
ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu