Daniel Peterson wrote:I'm pleased to announce that the latest volume has arrived from BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, and specifically from our series of the Medical Works of Moses Maimonides (the greatest rabbi and Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages):
Moses Maimonides, On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs, a parallel Arabic-English translation by Gerrit Bos (University of Cologne, Germany), with critical editions of medieval Hebrew translations by Dr. Bos and of medieval Latin translations by Michael R. McVaugh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
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Why was this not placed in the Off Topic Forum DP?
maklelan wrote:Not at all. I believe this translation series falls well within the scope of "Mormon Discussions,".
How is that exactly? Please do explain.
As a Latter-day Saint and a scholar who is interested in the academic work coming from BYU, and especially from personal acquaintences, I think it fits well within the parameters. If others would prefer this forum be reserved exclusively for topics about which cynics can freely bitch, maybe somebody needs to make that a rule. As it is, this is the "catch-all" forum for "general topics and debates."
JohnStuartMill wrote:Then you don't think a debate over Austrian vs. Keynesian macroeconomics would be out of place in the Terrestrial Forum? Come on, man.
If it were published under the auspices of an LDS organization run by someone on this board I would see no reason to complain.
As a Latter-day Saint and a scholar who is interested in the academic work coming from BYU, and especially from personal acquaintences, I think it fits well within the parameters.
Oh, I agree with you. This post is well within tier 1 Mormon apologetics, which makes it very welcome within this forum.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Daniel Peterson wrote:I'm pleased to announce that the latest volume has arrived from BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, and specifically from our series of the Medical Works of Moses Maimonides (the greatest rabbi and Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages):
Moses Maimonides, On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs, a parallel Arabic-English translation by Gerrit Bos (University of Cologne, Germany), with critical editions of medieval Hebrew translations by Dr. Bos and of medieval Latin translations by Michael R. McVaugh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
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Why was this not placed in the Off Topic Forum DP?
Anything that comes out of BYU is legit for discussion in this forum.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Daniel Peterson wrote:I'm pleased to announce that the latest volume has arrived from BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, and specifically from our series of the Medical Works of Moses Maimonides (the greatest rabbi and Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages):
Moses Maimonides, On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs, a parallel Arabic-English translation by Gerrit Bos (University of Cologne, Germany), with critical editions of medieval Hebrew translations by Dr. Bos and of medieval Latin translations by Michael R. McVaugh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
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Is this book used today in medicine? Why do this when the funds can be used for poor people. Is this a grant or pork?
