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- From: athena@cheshire.oxy.edu (Staci Ann Waldroop)
- Subject: Re: Origins of Christian Symbolism
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.025503.18874@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
- References: <dumic-190193145151@apamea.swarthmore.edu> <1993Jan21.025539.13971@cheshire.oxy.edu> <1jmqisINNnqd@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:55:03 GMT
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- In article <1jmqisINNnqd@shelley.u.washington.edu> mjsmith@cac.washington.edu (Martha Smith ) writes:
- >However great Dumezil is (and at least four of his books are available in trans
- >lation), he is an INDO-EUROPEANIST. And the Greeks are not very representative
- >of the Indo-Europeans (Dumezil studies the Roman rather than the Greek for this
- >reason) and the Semetic peoples are not Indo-European. So note that Christian
- >symbolism began as a Semitic/Greek mix primarily. By the way, Littleton is
- >also excellent as is Lincoln on Indo-European materials
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- Who is Lincoln? I am not being a smart ass...(you seem to have a problem with
- that), I simply have a voracious appetite for reading and my hobby right now is
- Indo-European stuff...and he doesn't strictly study Romans!! Jeesh, you need
- to get out of the wind and cold up there in Seattle...your brain is rusting...
- **smile**---by the way, that generally means I am being playfull! Lighten up!
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- Staci Waldroop
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