Word: philologist
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...part, at least, of both the Lord's Prayer and the New Testament teaching of Jesus can be attributed to the Qumran sect. "The Teacher of Righteousness", he said, "was persecuted and probably crucified by Gentiles at the instigation of a wicked priest of the Jews." Allegro, himself a philologist, claimed that the similarity had caused "a minor revolution in New Testament scholarship...
Historically, Jaeger's main interests are the periods of the ancient Greeks and of the early Christians. In terms of scholarly technique, he likes equally well minute textual analysis and general critical interpretation. In title, he has been both philologist and philosopher. These assorted specialties have brought forth over Jaeger's 45-year career a host of publications (29 entries in the Widener catalogue) that are all admirable and nearly all different. Probably his best known works is Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, a book which he published at the age of 35 and which revolutionized...
Convulsions & Hottentots. Even after the Dictionary came out, his worries continued. A critic named Thomas Edwards denounced the work as "a vehicle for Jacobite and High-flying tenets" and Johnson for "crouding" it with such "monstrous words" as "adespotick, amnicolist, androtomy." "Nearly one-third of this Dictionary," added Philologist John Home Tooke, "is as much the language of the Hottentots as of the English." Years later the smug and able Noah Webster observed that confidence in the Dictionary "is the greatest injury to philology that now exists...
...those years, Leopardi studied Latin, Greek, German, English, some Hebrew. When he emerged from the library at 17, he was a skilled philologist, a practiced poet, an authority on classical literature-and a ruined man. His eyes were so damaged that he could not bear the light of day; if he moved rapidly, "his head hammered and his pulses beat"; he was incapable of speaking to a stranger. Worst of all, a "double hump" had appeared between his shoulders-"a curvature of the spinal column...
Walz, a noted philologist and Goethe scholar, came to the University in 1905. He was the author of several books on the German language and contributed several articles to philological journals. In 1936 he published his famous "German Influence in American Education and Culture...