Not exact matches
«Bruce was born in Elgin, Moray, in Scotland, the son
of a Christian Brethren (Plymouth Brethren) preacher and educated at the University
of Aberdeen, Go - nville and Caius College, Cambridge and the University
of Vienna, where he studied with Paul Kretschmer, an Indo - European
philologist.
It seems that only secular
philologists are in a position to see the literary and artistic value
of these prayer formularies, which are certainly among the oldest constituent elements
of the liturgical heritage.»
For example, in his science - fiction novel, Out
of the Silent Planet, Lewis wrote
of Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge
philologist who is kidnapped and taken to another planet.
The research
of the archaeologist, historian and
philologist supplies him with material for the study
of religious groupings from the beginnings
of history to the present day.
Thus the
philologist would ascertain the meaning
of a passage
of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development
of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression
of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point
of view.
I am not a philosopher capable
of taking in the whole, but a
philologist concerned with particulars.
Elwin Ransom
of Lewis's Space Trilogy, a
philologist by profession, is forced to undertake a quest.
He later became a
philologist, and the fantasy worlds he created were partly the result
of working out the logic
of the languages that he had invented.
Owen Barfield is a British literary theorist and
philologist who has extrapolated from Goethe, Coleridge, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Friedrich Max Muller in order to argue that language is basically and naturally metaphorical.8 Reasoning from this thesis, Barfield has also had some provocative things to say about the evolution
of consciousness.9
Ever since the work
of the great
philologist Erich Auerbach, scholars have recognized the note
of realism that the Gospels introduced into ancient literature.
Thus they urge historians
of religions to concentrate more on the historical, phenomenological, and institutional aspects
of religions, depending heavily on the co-operation and assistance
of anthropologists, sociologists,
philologists, and universal as well as regional historians.
Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure
of the discipline which serves as a sort
of introduction or preparation, to the science
of religions (one knows that the majority
of historians
of religions are former
philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure
of the vast theoretical improvisations
of the end
of the nineteenth century and the beginning
of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease
of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).
But this amounts to saying that the historian
of religions hesitates to complete his preparatory work as a
philologist and as a historian through an effort
of understanding, which, to be sure, presupposes an act
of thinking.
He endeavors to understand the materials that
philologists and historians make available to him in his own perspective, that
of the history
of religions.
The historian
of religions does not act as a
philologist, but as a hermeneutist.
Thus in 1962, at the time
of their marriage, Tudor, 43 to Tenley's 26, was a socially distinguished 43 - year - old wrestling brute
of a classical
philologist.
Philologists assume that Semites migrated into Mesopotamia around the end
of the fourth millennium B.C.E., intermingling with Sumerians and finally dominating Mesopotamian civilization.
Wilhelm H. I. Bleek, a German
philologist, acquired custody
of the men, who built huts at the bottom
of his garden and worked as domestic servants.
Agustina Garcia is a
philologist and language teacher at the IES Lope de Vega in Madrid; she is now studying Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer
of Ukrainian origin and a Jewish family, author
of «The Passion According to G.H».