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  • Both in his translation and in his other exegetical work, he employed philological techniques unusual for Jewish scholars: he attempted to derive the literal meaning of the texts from the semantics of the individual words.
  • Although the entries in the extant necrologies of monasteries and cathedrals are generally of the briefest possible character, only the day of the month, and not the year, being indicated, still in indirect ways these lists of names have been regarded as of considerable importance both for philological and historical purposes. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • Note: Despite all studies of philological possibilities, it still remains difficult to con­ceive the genitive novi et aterni testamenti as dependent upon the mysterium immedi­ately following, which is already associ­ated with a genitive [fidei]; whereas Paul-Luke combine the words sanguis [meus novi] testamenti into a unit, at least as to sense, and Matthew-Mark do so even in form. Archive 2006-11-01
  • The philological classification of the Brahui dialect has been much disputed, but the latest enquiries, conducted by Dr G.A. Grierson, have resulted in his placing it among the Dravidian languages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
  • Although this proposal came to nothing, it reawakened the interest of Furnivall and others in the Philological Society's own lapsed project for a new historical dictionary.
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  • According to most of the philological authorities, it denotes "dried clay that emits a sound" (i.e., when it is struck); and since it is used in the Quran exclusively with reference to the creation of man, it seems to contain an allusion to the power of articulate speech which distinguishes man from all other animal species, as well as to the brittleness of his existence (cf. the expression "like pottery" in 55:14). Mike Ghouse: Sikhs and Muslims Can Come Together For Guru Nanak's Birthday
  • By proofs exactly of the same linguistic kind as those by which the modern Spanish, French, and other Latin dialects can be shown to have all radiated from Rome as their centre, the old traditions of the eastern origin of all the chief nations of Europe have been proved to be fundamentally true; for by evidence so "irrefragable" (to use the expression of the Taylorian professor of modern languages at Oxford), that "not an English jury could now-a-days reject it," Philological Archæology has shown that of the three great families of mankind -- the Semitic, the Turanian, and the Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
  • He is currently refining one paper on Anglo-Saxon queenship and another on the avunculate in Beowulf, the latter invited for Philological Quarterly.
  • This 331-page volume provides detailed epigraphical, paleographical, archaeological, philological, and historical analyses that seem to echo the Copenhagen International Seminar (often branded as ‘minimalist’).
  • philological" proof of the modern origin of one of those authorities, the folio of 1632. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
  • As he unravels the origins of Tolkien's work, Shippey goes into great philological detail about the origins of words.
  • And then adduce philological and dating evidence to prove it ... Kateelliott: the Values of the Humanities, and SFF
  • His philological pursuits, interest in Indian legal literature (rare among Europeans of his time), and his liberal political outlook, introduced him to Indian languages, including SANSKRIT.
  • The Berlin anthropologist Bastian argued that Humboldt's ‘comparative method’ allowed natural science to surpass historical and philological criticism as a tool for interpreting human culture.
  • Three sets of comments are printed on each page: standard historical and philological notes; gleanings from mid-rashic theological reflections; and ethical advice for today's Conservative Jews.
  • Using his humanist skills in rhetoric, philosophy, and philology, he demonstrated that its historical anachronisms, philological errors, and contradictions in logic revealed that the Donation was an 8th-century forgery.
  • And yet I lately met a sciolist who pompously announced to me this philological absurdity as a discovery of his own. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It owns self characteristic. We can research a textbook from historical, pedagogical, sociological, ethnological and philological latitudes.
  • Such allusions, which portray Horace's awareness of politico-religious matters, can be said to be beyond the ken of a philological approach.
  • Anthropologist Kenneth Kennedy concludes of Gobineau and Chamberlain, that they "transformed the Aryan concept, which had its humble origins in philological research conducted by Jones in Calcutta at the end of the eighteenth century, into the politics and racial doctrines of Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. Rajiv Malhotra: How Europeans Misappropriated Sanskrit To Form The Aryan Race Theory
  • It combines the postmodernist use of heuristic concepts with a Chinese tradition of philological inquiry.
  • The demise of the original macaronic verse is due precisely to the success of the Italian humanists in their philological recuperation of classical Latin.
  • He was educated at Cavers School, near his native village of Denholm, and at Minto School, but his great philological and antiquarian knowledge was acquired largely through his own studies.
  • Of literary blunders probably the philological are the most persistent and the most difficult to kill. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
  • But what I have already said will perhaps suffice to show to genuine philological students that a language which, preserving so many of the roots in the aboriginal form, and clearing from the immediate, but transitory, polysynthetical stage so many rude incumbrances, s from popular ignorance into that popular passion or ferocity which precedes its decease, as (to cite illustrations from the upper world) during the The Coming Race
  • Solesmes never understood this, but we should recognize the learned and large philological work executed on the old manuscripts. Interview with Domenico Bartolucci
  • strath" or "dale" -- presents insurmountable philological difficulties to its identification with Gwen; the L and G, or GW not being interchangeable. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
  • Dr. Latham has ever earnestly and successfully insisted on the _disciplinal_ character of grammatical studies in general, combined with the fact, that the grammatical study of one's own language is exclusively so; and having established this theory, he has, by the production of various elementary works, exhibiting a happy combination of great philological acquirements with the ability to apply them in a logical and systematic manner, enabled those who shared his views to put that theory into practice. Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • Written in admirably clear Latin, it is a typical humanistic work in its classical quotations and references and historical and philological discussions.
  • If so, have they not been struck with a philological mania, on seeing his picture of the Kutchin-Kutcha Indians dancing; in which the principal performer is actually figuring in the midst of the wild circle in the way described. Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • Seventy years ago, the Philological Society had resolved to publish a completely new English dictionary.
  • It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van, Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
  • He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.

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