Footnote 3 - Sung Sermons
See Leonard Greenspoon, “Mission to Alexandria: Truth and Legend About the Creation of the Septuagint, the First Bible Translation,” BR 05:04
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See Leonard Greenspoon, “Mission to Alexandria: Truth and Legend About the Creation of the Septuagint, the First Bible Translation,” BR 05:04
Encaustic refers to a paint in which beeswax and resin have been added to the pigment. After application to a wooden panel, it is fixed by heat. This process was used on the famous Fayum mummy-portraits of the first and second centuries A.D. (Fayum is about 50 miles south of Cairo) and on early icons.
Grace Schulman wrote, “Bloom’s vision that the J author was a privileged and erudite woman is startling but convincing.…” Northrop Frye wrote, “The Book of J clearly highlights one of the major problems in Western culture: the fact that the Jehovah [sic] of the Old Testament is not a theological god at all but an intensely human character as violent and unpredictable as King Lear.” And Richard Howard wrote, “To read Bloom here is to become, a while, incandescent.”
For more on Masoretic texts, see Marc Brettler, “Glossary: Old Testament Manuscripts—From Qumran to Leningrad,” BR 06:04.
See Ziony Zevit, “Three Ways to Look at the Ten Plagues,” BR 06:03 and my letter, Readers Reply, BR 06:05.
See Aharon Kempinski, “Jacob in History,” BAR 14:01.
See Frank J. Yurco, “3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt,” BAR 16:05. Yurco also explains why he believes the name should be written Merenptah rather than the more common Merneptah.