Becoming Self-Aware In Words: A Sanskrit Lexicon of Emotions
Sophus Helle on Words for the Heart Literacy begins with lexicons. An ancient Egyptian text named The Onomasticon of Amenope opens with a
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Hebrew Literature and The Fate of American Hebraism
Yeshua G. B. Tolle Until recently, several plastic tubs and cardboard boxes sat gathering dust in the basement of DePauw University’s spiritual life
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Al-Ḥarīrī’s Fifty Tales: The Tongues of God and Man
Bruce Fudge on al-Ḥarīrī translated by Michael Cooperson Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text entitled “The Maqāmas.” Nobody knows
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Hebrew Philological Practices from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman, and Ishay Rosen-Zvi The Forum provides a home for substantial original and creative works of scholarship with the goal
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Understanding the Arab World Between Language and Culture
Lawrence Rosen on Tim Mackintosh-Smith A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home. This travel writer, expatriate,
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Language Scattered, Treasures Revealed: Tibet’s First Millennium Manuscripts
A Most Fortuitous Find at Dunhuang, China (1900 C.E.) Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled
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Charting the Atlas of the Heart: Why Humans Need a Language of Emotions
Thomas Harrison on Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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The Dictionary is Holy – By James Chapin
The book lords over my living room. A shelf sags under its weight of ink and wood-pulp. Inside are pages the size of
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MRBlog | The Emoji Bible and Bourgeois Legitimation
By Thomas J. Whitley Not many things related to the Bible get me excited these days. It’s not that the Bible’s not interesting,
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The Limits of Language – By Michael P. Jensen
Michael P. Jensen on Rowan Williams’s The Edge of Words Talking seems so simple and so habitual, that we forget how fraught with
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