CORE-UA 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James Murray (Lexicographer), Oxford English Dictionary, Presbyterian Polity
27 Oct 2020
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All books are texts but not all texts are books. Etymology: that which is woven, web, texture; the study of origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. A book offers a new and more efficient technology of interpretation. A scroll is a text not a book. Classics are works that continue to be read, and because they are read, they are the classics. Sir james augustus henry murray: the project began in 1879 and was completed in 1926. It was first though it could all be done in 5 years, but at that point, murray was only up to the word ant . Canon: a list of books accepted as authoritative. Canonical : list of saints in the catholic church, the gospel writers in the bible. Apocrypha: works excluded from such a list, as being spurious, heretical, or otherwise unauthorized. Such works are apocryphal : genesis in the bible.
