Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 96.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: Tzvee Zahavy <tzvee@zahavy.com> (13)
Subject: articles on Midrash
[2] From: Han Baltussen <han.baltussen@kcl.ac.uk> (53)
Subject: Re: 14.0093 thoughts on commentaries
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 06:33:59 +0100
From: Tzvee Zahavy <tzvee@zahavy.com>
Subject: articles on Midrash
At 12:07 AM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
> 1) 14.0089 thoughts on commentaries & humanities computing
> by Humanist Discussion Group <willard@lists.village.virginia.edu>
> (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
Hi Willard,
I thought these links to articles I wrote would be useful background for
the current discussion:
Biblical Criticism: Midrash and Medieval Commentary,
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/bibcrit.htm
and a review of Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash, at
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/review-db.htm
Best wishes,
Tzvee
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 06:36:56 +0100
From: Han Baltussen <han.baltussen@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 14.0093 thoughts on commentaries
Willard,
A very brief reaction to O'Donnel with whom a very much agree:
he wrote
>My largest reservation about the Most collection is that it concentrates
>on the intellectual act and the relationship of text and commentary, but
>does not put sufficiently in play the physical nature of the commentary as
>object and its development over time. Other than what one can infer from
>histories of classical scholarship and the like, I don't see that *this*
>task has ever been properly done.
there are some attempts to deal with this aspect, including by myself, but
the main problem is that commentary is the kind of meta-activity that
occurs in many different areas. I have started some time ago to work on the
late commentators on Aristotle, and have collected quite some material
ranging from legal, religious, literary to philosophical texts. My main
objective is to deal with earliest forms of polemic and exegesis and to
describe the emergence of "commentary" as a genre and as a tool, and I
would argue that the different areas can illuminate each other when it
comes to analysing and describing the phenomenology of the commentator's
activity.
Others like e.g. Jaap Mansfeld (*Prolegomena 1994; Prolegomena Mathematica
1998) and Ineke Sluiter (who has a paper in the Most volume) have written
or are in the process of writing on such issues (curiously we're all Dutch,
but that's an aside).
The Project I am working for here at King's College which produces
translations of these late commentators, is making available a lot of the
relevant material to enable others to deal with issues like 'physical
nature and development'.
I didn't mean this to be a plug for the Project/my own work (or at least
not only), but to strengthen O'Donnel's point, yet at the same time
indicate that this is not an omission which will remain there for long
(O'D. already indicated a similar point in his review of the amusing and
learned book by A. Grafton, *The Footnote, A Curious History* 1997
Faber&Faber, in Brynn Mawr Classical Review
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1998/98.1.05.html which was actually one of
my points of encouragement to go on with what I had started.)
Moreover, sometimes it is just very difficult to be aware of what's there
on this topic simply because it requires an interdisciplinary outlook, or
else because publications get overlooked on account of unhelpful titles.
Han Baltussen
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