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The Literal Sense of Tradition
Authors: Thiel John E 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter begins this study’s effort to sketch a hermeneutics of tradition. As we have seen, the four senses of scripture-the literal. the allegorical. the moral, and the anagogical-had a long history in medieval exegetical theory and practice. The senses of tradition expounded here and in the Following chapters are fourfold as well. That consistency in number with the medieval interpretive schema, however, should not suggest a parallel between the content of all four classical senses of scripture and that of the interpretive senses of tradition proposed herein. “Development-in-continuity,” “dramatic development,” and “incipient development,” the interpretive senses of tradition to be elucidated in the following chapters, do not correspond directly to the ancient interpretive senses of scripture: the allegorical, the tropological. and the anagogical. respectively. The first interpretive sense of tradition and the first interpretive sense of scripture do, nevertheless, resemble each other in their shared commitment to a stable meaning connected closely with the “letter” of tradition or the “letter” of scripture. To the degree that both scripture and tradition present their teaching in writing, they possess a literal sense that acts as a gravitational field for the other interpretive senses. Whether some of the other interpretive senses are attracted inexorably to the literal sense’s center of gravity or ardently resist its pull, they all nonetheless fall within the sphere of its influence. The literal sense of tradition is the concern of this chapter.
Incipient Development as a Sense of Tradition
Authors: Thiel John E 
Published: November 2023

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Dramatic development is a sense of tradition that anticipates a possible future in which tradition’s faithful configuration no longer includes a belief or practice previously moored, even for long periods of time, in the authoritative tradition. The criterion for discerning possible instances of dramatically developing tradition has ascribed great importance to the receptive power of the Church’s communal sense of the faith. More than the argumentative style of magisterial teaching and the lack of cogency of such teaching for theologians, the sense of the faith provides the most reliable evidence for beginning to judge the sense of dramatic development. The sense of dramatic development, like all four senses considered here, must be understood as an exercise of the sensus fidei, even if indirectly as an exercise of striking non reception. It proves itself to be the sensus fidei when its judgments are confirmed by the belief of the whole Church.
Tradition and Theology
Authors: Thiel John E 
Published: November 2023

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The previous chapter concluded by noting that comprehensive discernments, through which individuals and local communities configure the relationships among the four senses of tradition, encourage the Church to imagine a thicker unity to tradition-one that extends beyond tradition’s ac knowledged catholicity to its more questionable, though perhaps yet infallibly truthful, anticipation in local times and places, persons and events. Comprehensive discernments require no special qualifications or knowledge in order to be made. And they certainly require no study of the four senses of tradition presented here. Comprehensive discernments are as old as the tradition, and this study’s theoretical account of the four senses is a recent, and no doubt controversial, arrival in the long tradition of thinking about tradition.
Homo Anthologicus Micha Joseph Berdyczewski and the Anthological Genre
Authors: Kagan Zipora 
Published: November 2023

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No figure in modern Hebrew literature has been more closely identified with the anthological enterprise than Micha Joseph Berdyczewski, later known as Bin-Gorion (1865-1921). In the course of his life, Berdyczewski, in addition to being a writer of fiction, a folklorist, essayist, critic, and scholar, compiled five multivolume anthologies and seems to have discovered in the anthological form a fitting embodiment of what he considered the nature of modem Jewish existence. Indeed, so central and fundamental a role did the compilation of anthologies play in his life that it would be no exaggeration to call Berdyczewski homo anthologicus. Micha Joseph Berdyczewski was born on July 27, 1865, in the village of Medzibezh in Podolia, a district in the Ukraine (Little Russia). Most of his childhood and youth were spent in Dubova, where his father served as the community’s rabbi. His mother died when he was eleven, and this traumatic experience shadowed Berdyczewski all his life, serving as the subject of several of his stories. In 1882, at the age of seventeen, the young ‘iluy (prodigy) married a rich man’s daughter, but after he was discovered reading maskilic texts, his father-in-law forced him to divorce his wife (whom Berdyczewski had grown to love). The trauma of this episode walater given poignant esthetic expression in his story “Me’ever lanahar” (Across the River, 1899).
The lngathering of Traditions
Authors: Bartal Israel 
Published: November 2023

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TZionism and Culture he intellectuals who enlisted in the Zionist movement’s Kulturkampf hoped to create a national culture for the Jewish society that was to grow on the soil of Palestine. This culture, like other national cultures in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was based on a tension-ridden conglomeration of elements of cultural heritage from the period prior to the advent of modern nationalism, and materials adopted from the European cultural repertoire, with Central and Eastern Europe taking particularly central positions. One of the most important elements in the creation of the new national culture was the reimaging of the past. The Zionist movement’s past was designed out of materials taken from the traditional cultural heritage; these, however, were rearranged in a manner that did not accord with traditional Jewish society’s image of the past. Matters that had been central to the traditional Jewish consciousness were moved to the margins, while others, which had been minor and marginal, moved to center stage. Thus, thinkers and writers within the Zionist movement focused on periods of national independence such as the Hasmonean period and showed considerably less interest in periods of cultural prosperity outside of Palestine. Past materials were given new meanings and were transposed from their old religious context to social, economic, and intellectual contexts determined by modern nationalism.
Textualizing the Tales of the People of the Book: Folk Narrative Anthologies and National Identity in Modem Israel
Authors: Hasan-Rokem Galit 
Published: November 2023

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Whether it is the work of the Grimm bothers or the Finnish epic Kalevala, collecting oral folk creativity, writing it down, and publishing it in anthologies is one of the most noted components in the formation of national identity in modern times. These great anthologies all have their origins in a matrix of ideology and politics, and those matrices not only engendered them but also endowed them with their singular features. Certainly, this was the case with folk-narrative anthologies in Israel. The work of Dov Noy, the preeminent scholar of Jewish folklore and the founder of the Israel Folk Archives, produced and stimulated a vast and impressive retrieval of Jewish lore from the major Jewish communities of the world just at the moment when most of these communities had ceased to exist, whether by destruction, modernization, or removal to Israel. The shifting dialectic between this enormous anthological project and the emergence of the modern State of Israel is the subject of this essay. This inquiry is part of a larger effort by folklorists in many countries to deconstruct the functional connection between nation building and folklore studies and to understand the purposes the discipline has historically served.
The Holocaust According to Its Anthologists
Authors: Roskies David G 
Published: November 2023

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At the center of their single-minded effort to extirpate the Jews of Europe, the Germans turned the conquered territories into a dystopia. Within a few select ghettos-Warsaw, Lodz, Lublin, Cracow, Bialystok, Vilna, Terezfn-they concentrated Jewish populations from far and wide; villagers and city-folk, the pious and politically active, east and west, the law-abiding and the criminal class, the apostates and the atheists, a veritable babble of tongues. When ghettos proved insufficient to effectuate their master plan, the Germans built special camps, some primitive, some state-of-the-art, and from the south of France to the Pripet marshes, from Riga to Salonika, the surviving Jews were transported there to labor, to starve, and to be ground into ash. The apotheosis of the German dystopia was the lnstitutzur Erforschung der Judenfrage in Frankfurt, the final repository for the plundered Jewish books and cultural treasures, a diabolical caricature of a future encyclopedia on the vanished Jews of Europe.
Gender and Genre
Authors: Thysell Carol 
Published: November 2023

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One of the women about whom Bainton was particularly puzzled was Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549), the highly educated and internationally respected sister of King Francois I. AB patron and advocate of many of France’s evangelistes (those who sought to reform the Church from within), Marguerite de Navarre provided refuge for many reformers, including John Calvin, at her court at Nerac during times of persecution.
Verse Forms: The Sonnet
Authors: Wolosky Shira 
Published: November 2023

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In the last chapter we discussed the sonnet in relation to metaphor, focusing on how metaphor can be used to build a sonnet structure. Now we will consider the sonnet more generally as a verse form. Besides allowing a fuller examination of the sonnet itself, it will help us to begin thinking about the importance of formal features—frameworks, rules, conventions—for poetry and for the way poetry works.
Poetic Conventions
Authors: Wolosky Shira 
Published: November 2023

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Poetry in its very name (poiein: to make) suggests original creativity. Yet poetry is highly conventional. Indeed, every element of poetry discussed so far can be considered in terms of poetic convention. Levels of diction, poetic syntax, the sonnet itself, and, as we shall see, verse forms in general are defined by established conventions. Even simile and metaphor, along with other figures of speech, are conventions we recognize, and indeed expect, from poetry.
Personification
Authors: Wolosky Shira 
Published: November 2023

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Poetic figures can be small or large, brief moments in a text or general organizing principles. Personification, like poetic conventions (topoi) or simile, can take either form and size. Yet even when appearing as a single or discrete image in a text, personification has wide implications for poetic language generally; and its historical course marks important developments in the history of poetry.
Poetic Voice
Authors: Wolosky Shira 
Published: November 2023

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Poetic voice is often assumed, in the lyric, to mean the voice of the poet. A generalized speaker, called a “lyric I,” allows the poet to speak in some pure language, perhaps as the spirit of poetry itself. This notion, however, applies to only one kind of poetic voice. Even in cases where the poem does seem to present the poet as speaking in general, there always remains the individual person as well. Conversely, when the poet seems to speak in his or her own voice, she or he still is speaking as a poet, in poetic language, and not merely privately or casually.
Poetic Rhythm: Sound and Rhyme
Authors: Wolosky Shira 
Published: November 2023

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Like metrical rhythms, sound rhythms of poetry are at once the most natural and the most technical of poetic features; mechanical to study and yet a compelling and even defining element of poetry. As with meter, sound patterns can be identified, but in a different sense their effects resist discussion. And, as with meter, the sound structures and patterns that make a poem can’t be appreciated outside the many overlaying patterns of language in a text. Yet they do not merely correspond to some other feature, such as a “meaning” (which may be in any case only part of what the poem is about) which they in some way illustrate or imitate. Sounds exist first at a level of pure sense enjoyment, of appreciation of words for their own sake, as rhythmic play that may also include multiple relationships through etymology and pun (paranomasia). Language in poetry is, to an exceptional degree, material. Poetry celebrates the materiality of language: the shape, sound, body of words, as they embody, and structure, linguistic experience.
Antoine Du Pinet And His Models
Authors: Backus Irena 
Published: November 2023

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The identity of Antoine du Pinet remains uncertain to this day. A certain Antoine Pignet was minister at Ville-la-Grand in the Chablais, near Geneva, in October 1538. Judging by the correspondence between him and Calvin in the years 1538–1540, Pignet was the corrector of Calvin’s works during the reformer’s exile in Strasbourg. On 4 October 1539, he wrote to Calvin to say that he had just read the Latin version of the latter’s Reply to Sadolet and was so struck by its elegance and importance that he proposed to translate it into French so as to make it available to a wider public. On 27 October of the same year, in a letter to Guillaume Farel, Calvin made it quite clear that two translators of the Reply were working in competition with one another and that one of them was Pignet. The French translation finally appeared in Geneva in 1540 from the presses of Michel du Bois, with nothing to indicate whether it was the work of Antoine Pignet or of his competitor.
The Apocalypse And The Zurich Reformers
Authors: Backus Irena 
Published: November 2023

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Leo Jud was born at Gemar in Alsace, southwest of Strasbourg and attended the Latin School at Selestat at the same time as Martin Bucer. In 1499, he matriculated at the University of Basel, where he met and became friends with Ulrich Zwingli. He intended to study medicine but soon turned to theology under the influence of Thomas Wyttenbach. Jud was ordained a priest in Rome in 1507. From 1507 until 1512, he was deacon at Saint Theodore’s in Basel, and from 1512 to 1518, he was preacher at Saint Hippolyte in Alsace. In 1519, he succeeded Zwingli at Einsiedeln, while becoming increasingly favorable to the Reformation. In 1522, he was chosen, on Zwingli’s recommendation, to become pastor of Saint Peter’s in Zurich, where he took up his duties on 2 February 1523. He was at Zwingli’s side during the Second Zurich Disputation (26–28 October 1523) and during the confrontation with the radical Anabaptists in 1525. He was a judge (one of the two clergymen together with four laymen) of the marriage court from its inception in 1525.
Introduction
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: November 2023

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In American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions, I detailed the immense impact that the Euro-American discovery of Asian religions had not only on European Romanticism, but above all, on American Transcendentalism. There I argued that the Transcendentalists’ discovery of the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas, the Upanishads, and other world scriptures was critical in the entire movement, pivotal not only for the well-known figures like Emerson and Thoreau, but also for lesser known later figures like Samuel Johnson and William Rounseville Alger. That Transcendentalism emerged out of this new knowledge of the world’s religious traditions I have no doubt. But there were also pre-existing traditions in western Europe that contributed a great deal to the emergence, not only of Transcendentalism, but also of what has come to be known as the American Renaissance, that extraordinary period during the mid-nineteenth century when so much of American literature came into being. Primary among these European traditions was Western esotericism.
Esotericism in Early America
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: November 2023

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Reading most histories of colonial America gives one little indication that there was any presence of Western esotericism in the New World at all. Historians have been chiefly concerned with the realm of events, of wars and famines, of treaties and exploration of the new continent, and have paid very little attention at all to whether or how the various currents of Western esotericism made their way into the colonies. Yet when we look more closely at the lives of colonists in North America, we discover that all manner of esoteric disciplines were brought over from Europe, and sometimes played major roles in people’s lives. Generally speaking, the forms of esotericism brought from Europe to colonial America can be separated into two main categories: pragmatic esotericism and spiritual esotericism.
Greaves
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: November 2023

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In 1842, Emerson wrote in his journal a passage with a startling reference to a little-known English author and mystic. The passage reads: “And yet there are books of no vulgar origin but the work & the proof of faculties so comprehensive, so nearly equal to the universe which they paint, that although one shuts them also with meaner ones, yet he says with a sigh the while, this were to be read in long thousands of years by some stream in Paradise. Swedenborg, Behmen, Plato, Proclus, Rabelais, & Greaves.”1 Plato and Proclus come as no surprise and need no introduction, nor, probably, do Swedenborg, Jacob Böhme and Rabelais. It is a peculiar list, made more peculiar by its concluding name, Greaves. Who on earth is this, and what is he doing in this list of luminaries, Emerson’s literary-religious pantheon of writers to be read in Paradise? To answer this question is to understand how American Transcendentalism was deeply influenced by Böhmean German theosophy—filtered through the English author Greaves.
Dickinson
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: November 2023

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At first glance, Dickinson is certainly the most unexpected of authors to encounter in our study of Western esotericism in the American Renaissance. There is only scant evidence of her reading, and none that she read directly on topics like alchemy or mysticism. What is more, there is just a modicum of evidence that she was interested in the vulgarized esotericism of spiritualism or mesmerism, despite the fact that, as Robert Weisbuch observed with only mild exaggeration, “nearly every poem Dickinson wrote has to do with death.”1
Pilgrimage to an Earthly City
Authors: Fenn Richard K 
Published: November 2023

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The Loss of A providential viewpoint leaves us at the mercy of societies that are self-organizing and self-justifying. The span of history offers little consolation or challenge to such a system; the challenges come from the environment, which is full of threat and possibility at any given time. The long view remains a staple of political rhetoric, whereas decision making follows the polls and the quarterly report. Such societies offer little in the way of symbolic gratification to the individual who is seeking to find in the nation or larger society a personificationof his or her values and commitments.
Such societies demystify the passage of time and leave individuals on their own to sort out their ultimate loyalties. As a result, individuals are not torn between this world and some other world that is the consummation of every hope and longing. On the contrary, one is left with the sense that time is the only arena for human struggle. That is, one is no longer torn between allegiance to an earthly or a heavenly city; most conflicts are more mundane, for example, between the city of one’s origin and the one to which one has emigrated later in life. Many immigrants in fact do shuttle back and forth between the countries of their origin and later residence. Those who stay put still live in a welter of earthly allegiances and may indeed be divided by conflicts, say, between home and work. However, it is a minority who long for another world in the midst of this one; their spiritual disease is not inevitable or beyond secular cure.
Introduction
Authors: Tasić Vladimir 
Published: November 2023

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The antagonism between two vaguely conceived entities, colloquially labeled “science” and “postmodernism,” seems to have become part of public life. In the past few years, pages filled with entertaining invective have sprung up both on the Internet and in print. attracting the attention of such mainstream media as The New York Times, The Guardian, and Libération. These exchanges come under the heading “science wars.”
This passionate debate—which revolves around the problem of how science in general and mathematics in particular are read or misread—raises a number of social. historical. and even political questions. I am primarily interested in the following one: Why would various postmodern intellectuals bother invoking mathematics in their theories at all?
Around The Cartesian Circuit
Authors: Tasić Vladimir 
Published: November 2023

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It does not seem reasonable to try to provide a self-contained account of the work of a dozen eminent philosophers in a few pages. Instead of attempting the impossible, I will restrict myself to establishing a few reference points needed for subsequent discussion. There is little content that is specifically mathematical at this stage, because many questions about mathematical knowledge are questions about knowledge in general.
One school of thought, the seventeenth-century rationalism of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, is traditionally believed to have held that mathematics is entirely the business of pure reason. But if mathematics is a mere invention of the spirit, why does it work in practice? If it is reducible to purely logical relations, then it seems that all mathematics is in a sense based on trivialities. However, the wealth and applicability of mathematics make it seem like something that is not at all trivial.
Beyend The code
Authors: Tasić Vladimir 
Published: November 2023

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Brouwer was not the only mathematician who objected to the “atomistic” view of space and time, and to the limitations of a linguistically obsessed view of mathematics. German mathematician Hermann Weyl made similar objections, as well as Henri Poincaré and several other French mathematicians to whom Brouwer referred as “pre-intuitionists.”
It is important to note that none of them denied the practical value of the atomist view, including the idea of time as a “line” filled with points-moments that are in essence regarded as linguistically accessible entities. This mathematical idealization proved itself an invaluable methodological tool for modeling physical phenomena, motion in particular. That was not under dispute at all. What came under fire was the deeper issue of whether this atomic theory is satisfactory when it presumes to offer objective knowledge of the continuum.
Postmodern Enigmas
Authors: Tasić Vladimir 
Published: November 2023

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Now that we have a reasonably large data bank of analogies at our disposal, we can begin a critical reconstruction of the basics of “postmodern” argumentation. Derrida’s work is particularly interesting in the present context, because he seems aware of its mathematical tributaries.
I believe that at this stage we are in a position to infer what appears to be one of the “central” insights of the otherwise decentered thought-constellation known as poststructuralism. More precisely, we can derive this corollary by means of Poincaré’s critique of impredicative definitions and givenness of identity. That indeed seems to be what Derrida has done ( although for the sake of clarity I will suppress the dark lyricism that clouds his writing).