Roger was also at the table as well as others from IPSharp when Ken told me
about the Book of J—a book written by Bloom around 1989 that presented the
theory held by Bloom and others that J as a oman—
> My J is a Gevurah ("great lady") of post-Solomonic court circles, herself of
> Davidic blood, who began writing her great work in the later years of
> Solomon, in close rapport and exchanging influences with her good friend the
> Court Historian, who wrote most of what we now call 2 Samuel.
It is only one theory that might now be more widely accepted or might now be
debunked.
I think Roger or another person mentioned C-language and K and the other
considerations you outline—Ken was just being enigmatic and playful and he
loved to layer meanings, multiple entendres—as one can see from J language.
Donna Y
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> On May 31, 2018, at 6:09 PM, PR PackRat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is way off-topic--so please forgive me--but I wanted to clarify
> some previous messages:
>
> On 5/31/18, Donna Y <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Once I asked Ken about the name of J language and he referred me to the Book
>> of J for some clues:
>
> Somewhere in the J literature Roger Hui relates how he named it after
> the letter "J", which was conveniently under the right index finger
> when typing.
>
> As you know, single letter language names were the rage decades ago.
> (J's "sibling" was "K", developed by Arthur Whitney and subsequently
> revised as "Q". Whitney had also previously developed the "A" portion
> of the "A+" language.) However, that single-letter feature makes
> these languages nearly impossible to find in some search engines,
> which usually require at least 3 characters in a search term. That's
> why some people promote using "Jay" as a secondary index term, as in
> "Jay language", or appending the two, as in "jlanguage", or being sure
> to include more terms than merely "J", such as "J programming
> language". This all depends, of course, on the search engine in a
> given application, such as email or Google Search.
>
>>> Biblical scholarship has, by long and minute labor, and with continuing
>>> controversy, established that these books are a redaction of at least four
>>> separate documents (some say more). One of these, usually regarded as the
>>> earliest, was given the label J,
>>
>>> Nobody knows who J, as the author of J has come to be called for short,
>>> was, and many believe there were several J's;
>>
>> He thought I’d be amused to know that J is thought to be a woman.
>
> I have a theological background, and the documents are not named after
> any specific humans. Rather, the names are generic labels, based on
> the portions of the Torah hypothetically contributed by the four main
> "editors": J is the Yahwist (uses the name Yahweh for God--J is
> pronounced like Y in German, which is where this theory was first
> promulgated), E is the Elohist (uses the name Elohim for God), D is
> the Deuteronomist (essentially the book of Deuteronomy), and P is the
> Priestly editor (essentially the book of Leviticus, with all the
> priestly laws). This is the basis of what is called the "JEDP
> hypothesis" or the "documentary hypothesis" of the Torah (or
> Pentateuch).
>
> FWIW.
>
> Harvey
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