Here are 10 things I've learned from Gatsby so far, with the help of scholar-interpreters Matthew Bruccoli, Susan Bell, and others.
The tannaim were succeeded by other scholars, called amoraim ("interpreters" or "reciters") who, in Palestine and Babylonia, wrote extensive commentaries (Gemara) on the Mishna.
When he uses that word "the days of the years of your life," our great commentators, our great scholars, our great interpreters tell us that there's a message.
They also rely on what the Biblical scholar James Tabor calls "inspired interpreters," prophets equipped with the divine insight to interpret those clues and prepare their followers to be among God's chosen.
Since Confucian scholars were the official interpreters of this and the other classics, the book was a means for imposing Confucian ideals on government.
It is with deep sorrow that the American Academy of Arts andSciences mourns the loss of Jaroslav Pelikan, preeminent scholar of the humanities, wise interpreter of the modern university, and President of the Academy from 1994-1997.
He calls them the "ancient interpreters" and the "modern scholars".
Among other psychoanalytic interpreters of religion, the American scholar Erich Fromm (1900 80) modified Freudian theory and produced a more complex account of the functions of religion.
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Bacon also found a sympathetic reader and interpreter in the great secular scholar of the Sorbonne, Peter of Limoges (d. 1306).
Most commonly over the years, she has shared her microphone with religious ethicists (modern interpreters of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Reinhold Niebuhr), textual scholars (Ellen F. Davisof Duke Divinity School), and scientists ruminating about the intersection of divinity and humanity (the physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne).
