Love the format, the speaker and the subject, thank you to the OI!

This is a wonderful format and forum to learn about what the next generation of scholars are examining. Good luck moving forward.

Excellent presentation. I can't wait to read your dissertation!

Thank you. Enjoyed the content and format. More please!

Perfect! Thanks so much.

... A hugely absorbing subject which encapsulates so many ancient stories and perhaps *how and why* It seems to have been so necessary to us all to have such roots and heroes in our histories starting perhaps with _Gilgamesh._ Thanks so much - and good luck with your future studies!

Great lecture, not being a philologist myself, this introduces me to a very interesting world of literature!

This is awesome, thank you so much!!

Fantastic talk. Your students, readers, and the profession are fortunate to have you

Very informative and enjoyable! Thanks!

Fascinating. I love the format.

I'd love to see more of these

Very interesting lecture. Thanks a lot!

Great presentation of fascinating material, thank you! Well done!

Thank you Oi! :O)

This is an excellent and unexpectedly delightful talk. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge in this talk and thank you for studying this field.

Excellent presentation, Mr. Cross.

Very interesting and delightful reading suggestions.

Great talk, thank you!!

Thank you very much 🎩🙏🏽🇲🇽📚

Very enjoyable! A side benefit for me was that I *finally* heard an explication of "exegesis" that makes sense to me.

@halporter9

4 жыл бұрын

I have comandeeereed this ipad

@halporter9

4 жыл бұрын

I love the abstract, let’s get into this abstract. let’s get the Rorschach goin

@halporter9

4 жыл бұрын

I can do parody. It’s what I’m doing right... now..

Thank you for a very interesting and informative talk. I will be sharing this with friends who are interested in storytelling as an art.

Thanks so much and wold love to hear more from you. I wonder what relationship there is to late classical Greek-Roman novels.

@glutinousmaximus

4 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah

The anecdote recorded by Saint Augustine about silent reading concerns Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, not Saint Anselm. (those similar sounding names will get you every time :) )

@josephcross6150

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, thank you, I'm always confusing them!

@FoyScalf

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephcross6150 The mention is at 10:24. This is a famously cited passage. Paul Saenger made quite a lot out of it in his article "Silent Reading: Its Impact on Late Medieval Script and Society" and elaborated on it at length in his book Space between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. Likewise, Ivan Illich, in his In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalion, also focused on the episode of Ambrose mentioned by Augustine. This is a discussion that goes back at least to 1927. However, it has been prominently dismantled, for example, by William Johnson, "Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity," AJP 121 (2000), 593-627 and R. McCutcheon, "Silent Reading in Antiquity and the Future History of the Book," Book History 18 (2015), 1-32. It's certainly a very interesting vignette, but I'm skeptical of what many people (such as Saenger and Illich) have read into it and I fall more on the side of Johnson and McCutcheon. Certainly people in the ancient world could, and did, read silently, even if most of the population, who would have largely been illiterate, heard the stories through oral performance.

This video very much puts me in mind of (Sir) Terry Pratchett - he wrote the famous "Diskworld" novels. In his stories there is a quality of life sleeting through our universe called "Narrativium". A quality that has power and persuasion to all of us humans throughout History. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld

enjoyed that a lot! Retelling of stories/subject/method defies times and places. Humans are humans

Ohh..i considered /wanted to study there in that very department! LOL

Cool man.

Los Espookys!!!

Dr Cross, what is the evidence that Jonah is a parody, rather than a regular novella that incorporates beliefs about Yahweh?

@glutinousmaximus

4 жыл бұрын

Jonah and "The Big Fish" is one of the obvious OT attempt to provide "Heroes" throughout Jewish history ~ like David and Goliath and many many others. See for instance - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah

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Why does he think that Jonah was not actually swallowed by a huge sea creature such as a whale? Is God not able to bring about what we read in the Book of Jonah? I suspect he is assuming there is no God. That is a big assumption that requires justification. There are very good reasons to doubt naturalism and materialism. To say that Jonah has no spiritual application is incredibly shallow and naive.

I am scared that you deleted my comment about the Phoenicians bringing these stories from India

@ISAC_UChicago

4 жыл бұрын

Hi @KeinsingtonCisco! We do not remove any comments that do not break our community rules, and have not removed anything from you on this thread. I checked the review list that KZread keeps automatically for comments with certain words in them, but could not find anything either. Could you repeat your comment, maybe? Thanks! (kb)

@KeinsingtonCisco

4 жыл бұрын

@@ISAC_UChicago HI and sorry for the misunderstanding I guess it got deleted by accident/language? I just mentioned that the hairstyles in the deir el-medina image look like the Hare Krishna or Japanese/chineese Buddhist top knot hair cut with the shaved forehead. (I just realized maybe cause I wrote the short form for Japanese maybe KZread considers it derogatory?) Any who, thanks for the great content! Cheers!!

@glutinousmaximus

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the _Panchatantra_ is a likely source of many such stories now embedded in Jewish history ~ like The 'Wisdom of Solomon' etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchatantra