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Category Archives: Education & Academia
A Strange World in which East and West, Past and Present Intermingle
The Egyptians are so different from every other ancient people that one hardly knows what to make of them. They are the only people we know of who deliberately planned to convey in formation to other ages than their own. Continue reading
The Book of Mormon – a Bedizzening Variety of Stuff
This whole apocryphal world is brought together in the B. of M., a veritable handbook of motifs and traditions. As a work of fiction, as a mere intellectual tour de force, nothing could touch it – but along with that it is full of old Jewish lore that very few Jews have ever heard of, handles the desert situation in a way that delights my Medcans, and gives a picture of primitive Christianity that is right out of the Dead Sea Scrolls & the Nag Hamadi texts. What a theme for a kid of 23 to attempt. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Education & Academia, Letters
Tagged Apocrypha, Babylonian, Book of Mormon, Canaanite, Coffin Texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, Egyptian, Egyptian wisdom literature, Encyclopedia Judaica, Greek philosophy, James Joyce, Jew, Jewish, Jewish encyclopedia, Koran, Mormon scholarship, Moslem, Muslim, mythology, Old Testament, Quran, religion, religious scholarship, Shakespeare
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Eastern Tycoons Blowing their Heads Off Right and Left
The way the he-man cult of the hunter has blossomed forth since the II phase of the War bodes ill for the future of the great republic. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Nature, Philosophy
Tagged hunting, religious debate, Utah
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Scholarship in America is as Dead as the Dodo
No, my dear fellow, scholarship in America is as dead as the dodo and has been for at least 30 years: go to their conventions if you don’t believe they’re a bunch of ineffectual zombies. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Letters
Tagged Arabic, educationist, educator, Iran, Mollah, Mullah
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Devoid of Permanence and the Feeling of Security
Once you go down to work in the fields you lose that power to survey the whole scene and move when the time comes in any direction. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Letters, Philosophy
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Awful Vanity
I would never want to be taken for a scholar – that’s the sort of thing anyone can do, and to that I shall resign myself only after admitting total defeat on all other fronts. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Letters, Philosophy
Tagged Academia, Egyptology, philosophy, Scholarship, Thomas Aquinas
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The Ominous Creak of Closing Minds
One who flips through the publications or inhales the pipe smoke of seminar rooms and studies can almost hear the ominous creak of closing minds in our day. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Letters
Tagged ancient studies, Arabic, Greek, Hellenistic civilization, Late Antiquity, Latin, Persian, Scaliger, Scholarship
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Eschewing Costly Apparel
One of the professors there was worried about me. He said, “Don’t people bother you when you’re walking there?” Continue reading
Why They Called Him Gad-Fly Updated
I was an insufferable little show-off, I’ll say that. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Interviews
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On Religion Teachers at BYU (or, Why they Called Him a Gad-fly)
Here we are, unemployable by any academic standards, living on the welfare of the church…and to justify ourselves we spend our days fulminating against the evils of socialism and the wickedness of the idle poor. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Interviews
Tagged Brigham Young University, BYU, Mormon, Socialism, Welfare
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