Neither Literal nor Metaphorical: Divine Body Traditions, Indispensable Pictures and Wittgensteinian ‘Secondary Sense’

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-468
Author(s):  
D. Michael Cox
Keyword(s):  
Divine Body ◽  
Secondary Sense

The Divine Body in Grace Nichols's "The Fat Black Woman's Poems"

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
Divine Body

The Divine Body of the Heavens

2017 ◽  
pp. 31-66
Keyword(s):  
Divine Body

Blake's Jerusalem As Visionary TheatreEntering the Divine Body

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne M. Sklar
Keyword(s):  
Divine Body

VII.—Recent Roman Discoveries in London

Archaeologia ◽  
1915 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 225-274
Author(s):  
Frank Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Old Evidence ◽  
Secondary Sense

The material dealt with in the first section of this paper can only be called ‘recent’ in a secondary sense. It is not so much a discovery as a rediscovery of old evidence long overlooked.

«WITHOUT MEASURE AND WITHOUT ANALOGY»: THE TRADITION OF THE DIVINE BODY IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH

Scrinium ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-257
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Orlov
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Form ◽  
Divine Body

The artice investigates the origins of the Shiccur Qomah tradition. This tradition depicts visionaries, Rabbi Ishmael and Rabbi Akiba, receiving from the supreme angel Metatron revelations of the «measurement of the body» (in Hebrew, Shiccur Qomah), an anthropomorphic description of the Deity together with the mystical names of its gigantic limbs. Although the majority of the evidence of the the Shiccur Qomah tradition survived in late Jewish writings, Gershom Scholem argued that the beginning of Shiccur Qomah speculations can be found in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch where one can find the description of the appearance of the Lord as a terrifying extent analogous to the human form. The article develops Scholem's hypothesis arguing that the traditions about the divine body in 2 Enoch were shaped by the early Adamic traditions. The portrayal of the prelapsarian Adam found in the longer recension of 2 Enoch reveals fascinating similarities to the later Shiccur Qomah descriptions.

“Secondary Sense”

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-537
Author(s):  
Sandra Plaskon
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Sense

The Nature of Political Representation, I

1940 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Fairlie
Keyword(s):  
Political Representation ◽  
Literal Meaning ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Secondary Sense

Much has been written on the origin, development, and characteristics of representative government; and in recent years there has been a revival of interest in this subject, and a further analysis of the evidence and criticism of views formerly accepted. In this extensive literature, considerable attention has been given to the nature of political representation and representative government, and to the relation between the representative and his constituents, with important differences in the definitions and meanings ascribed to these terms. Many writers have assumed that their views on these matters are the only correct statements; but some of the more recent writers have recognized, to some extent, the need for a closer analysis of the different senses in which these terms may be employed. An examination of different views may be of service in leading to a clearer understanding of the problems involved.Etymologically, the literal meaning of represent is to “present again,” and from this it has come to mean to appear in place of another. In this secondary sense, a representative has been defined as “an agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another or others.”

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