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On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 14:01 Donna Y, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
> [email protected]
>
>
> > 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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