And in Writing Matters, I argue that regardless of professional complexities, good writing is the key to good interpretation.
Scientific rigor and relevance are the main things but writing matters, too.
Epigraphy, the study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material.
The church had always exercised censorship over written matter, especially through the universities in the late Middle Ages.
Although printing was thought of at first merely as a means of avoiding copying errors, its possibilities for mass-producing written matter soon became evident.
In the edition sold in North America, where copyright laws allow more liberal quotation of written matter, some of the disputed material appears intact and some is paraphrased.
The multitude of incidental day-to-day written matter on potsherds and papyrus, preserved by climatological quirks in Egypt, affords insights into the normal living patterns of ordinary people during the pharaonic, the Hellenistic (Ptolemaic), and the Roman periods.
He wrote matter-of-factly, as he spoke, about very particular things: posts, stones, flowers.
"Nigger is Standard English and nigga is Black English," he writes, matter-of-factly.
