Re: Re[6]: THE RHETORICAL THEORY

janet cross (hceng028@DEWEY.CSUN.EDU)
Thu, 8 Aug 1996 13:20:09 -0700

On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, MARGARET BARBER wrote:
> tool I've found so far for getting over this hump is from the MLA
> booklet on teaching the Hebrew bible. Have students compare the language
> of five different English translations of the 23rd psalm (using the King
> James, Rheims-Douay, Geneva and Great Bibles, and the Masoretic text) and
> look at the political contexts within which those translations were
> made --especially the Puritan versions, with their downplaying of royal
> imagery, and the King James's use of it where the others, including the
> Jewish version, have none. You can imagine the discussions that might
> ensue. Something like this might be adapted for a comp class.

Heya Margaret and all:

Good stuff here. I would toss in the Oxford annotated w/apocrypha (gotta love
the notes which point to the different oral and priestly traditions)...and
maybe toss in a little of Burke's pentad with Nick's set of heuristics, and
see what they come up with. Yeah. Einstein was a "believer." Contingently.
Relativistically.

Janet

proponent of stone soup of any sort

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