"The proven method for accelerating the learning process in the schools of the ancients consisted of threats or actual beatings. The verbs for instruction in Egyptian and Hebrew carry therefore a double meaning... 'to rebuke' with words as well as with blows"
--- Where can wisdom be found?: the sage's language in the Bible and in ancient Egyptian literature / Nili Shupak
When you can't live without bananas
Friday, August 12, 2011
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