Comments on: New book to add to my list http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/12/22/new-book-to-add-to-my-list/ Encouraging curiosity about the world Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Murphy http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/12/22/new-book-to-add-to-my-list/comment-page-1/#comment-23522 John Murphy Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:44:15 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=3264#comment-23522 Sorry, Karyn - In the beginning, I wasn't commenting on Prof Van Wolde's work so much as I was commenting on the publisher's blurb. I trust she didn't write it. My point was that it does little to clarify exactly what Prof Van Wolde wrote about and a lot to confuse and obscure it, it sounded to me like someone trying to sound intellectual (and failing). The quote about Prof Van Wolde came from this comment on her work, where Christopher Heard recounts what she told the Dutch media. http://www.heardworld.com/higgaion/?p=1535 Sorry, Karyn – In the beginning, I wasn’t commenting on Prof Van Wolde’s work so much as I was commenting on the publisher’s blurb. I trust she didn’t write it. My point was that it does little to clarify exactly what Prof Van Wolde wrote about and a lot to confuse and obscure it, it sounded to me like someone trying to sound intellectual (and failing).

The quote about Prof Van Wolde came from this comment on her work, where Christopher Heard recounts what she told the Dutch media.

http://www.heardworld.com/higgaion/?p=1535

]]> By: Karyn http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/12/22/new-book-to-add-to-my-list/comment-page-1/#comment-23506 Karyn Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:47:59 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=3264#comment-23506 John, I appreciate discussion and encourage various (civil) opinions. Perhaps you could supply the citations to your quotes so that readers can place those quotes in context. Cognitive linguistics is a field that does require a good deal of mental gymnastics and persistence in reading the literature. I do hope you will take the time to read some of Professor Van Wolde's work and not just what other people say about her work. Karyn John,

I appreciate discussion and encourage various (civil) opinions. Perhaps you could supply the citations to your quotes so that readers can place those quotes in context.

Cognitive linguistics is a field that does require a good deal of mental gymnastics and persistence in reading the literature. I do hope you will take the time to read some of Professor Van Wolde’s work and not just what other people say about her work.

Karyn

]]> By: John Murphy http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/12/22/new-book-to-add-to-my-list/comment-page-1/#comment-23504 John Murphy Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:30:19 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=3264#comment-23504 "With these concepts, biblical scholars will be able to study emergent cognitive structures that issue from biblical words and texts in interaction with historical complexes." Are they serious here? Could they make what they mean any more opaque and vague? Sounds like nonsense masquerading as scholarship. Seriously. "Professor Van Wolde, an Old Testament scholar and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, said the standard interpretation of the opening sentence of the bible is no longer acceptable: “The traditional image of God the Creator is untenable. God did not create.” Professor Van Wolde said she understood her findings, which are soon to be published in a leading scientific magazine, will be devastating to traditional believers." Why am I not surprised at Professor Van Wolde's statement? “With these concepts, biblical scholars will be able to study emergent cognitive structures that issue from biblical words and texts in interaction with historical complexes.”

Are they serious here? Could they make what they mean any more opaque and vague? Sounds like nonsense masquerading as scholarship. Seriously.

“Professor Van Wolde, an Old Testament scholar and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, said the standard interpretation of the opening sentence of the bible is no longer acceptable: “The traditional image of God the Creator is untenable. God did not create.”

Professor Van Wolde said she understood her findings, which are soon to be published in a leading scientific magazine, will be devastating to traditional believers.”

Why am I not surprised at Professor Van Wolde’s statement?

]]> By: Karyn http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/12/22/new-book-to-add-to-my-list/comment-page-1/#comment-23491 Karyn Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:46:00 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=3264#comment-23491 Definitely agree with you on that, Mike! Definitely agree with you on that, Mike!

]]> By: Mike Aubrey http://stay-curious.com/archives/2009/12/22/new-book-to-add-to-my-list/comment-page-1/#comment-23490 Mike Aubrey Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:26:54 +0000 http://boulders2bits.com/?p=3264#comment-23490 Langacker is awesome. Langacker is awesome.

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