A Short Sermon on Shakespeare

Comparative Classification for Administrators: A Short Sermon

It appears that in too many instances the administrators who must decide what classification schemes libraries should use lack understanding of comparative classification. As a result, these decisions are frequently based upon irrelevant considerations. The author points to the several weighty reasons for claiming that such systems as Bliss, the Colon Scheme, and the UDC are superior to those i...

Shakespeare—A New Discovery

It is a rare event when a previously unknown manuscript by a classical author is discovered. The provenance of the fragment here reproduced is unknown, its authenticity is beyond question if for no other reason than that the folio is signed on verso by Shakespeare himself, using three different inks, three styles of script and eight spellings. Shakespeare's knowledge of medicine has been extens...

Triaging Shakespeare

Dear Ben, I just got the reviews back on my grant proposal for Hamlet, the new play I was telling you about. I applied to the National Institutes of Health in America this time—the RFA said they’re interested in creative new ideas and all that rot but they’re just as conservative as here in England. It wasn’t even discussed! I’ll wager it was those scoundrels Beaumont and Fletcher that sank it....

The Unity and Structure of the Sermon on the Mount

Jesus is often described in the Gospels as a preacher. What has become his most famous sermon is recorded in Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:17-49. The former is usually referred to as the Sermon on the Mount (note 5:1), the latter as the Sermon on the Plain (note 6:17 KJV). The following study will be concerned primarily with the unity and structure of the Matthean sermon, but a necessary preliminary i...

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