Ezzes of Estis – Study of Scripture: Scholarness

The study of writing is above everything. At least when we are believing Jews. And also when we have time for it. And if we don’t have time for it, we may have time for other topics. When I find a topic somewhere, I immediately dive in. And topics can be found everywhere.

Even the word topic is a topic itself: for example, that it is derived from the Greek and is derived there by the verb for “setting”, i.e. ultimately means setting. And once the topic is set, I immediately dive in and then it only goes into the depth; Then I let myself sink into the unfounded profundities of the topic, then I follow all the Labyrinthian channels, all the underground ramifications, all the winding worms. I don’t reappear before everything has been researched. I am the custeau of episteme, and the knowledge is oceanic. I often ask me: what is your area? What is your very own terrain? But I don’t know about that: every depth attracts me.

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Magnus Terhorst

Alexander Estis, a freelance Jew without a permanent residence, writes so much Schmonzes in this column that the pejes grow.

Let’s say I study the comments on the fragments of the pre -Socratics; But of course I have to master the Greek for a thorough degree beforehand, must have internalized the final emphasis of the strong aorist; The mere language control is by no means sufficient, it is only a surface – the development of the language, the etymologies of the words have to be known; Alone: ​​For a sovereign historical view, comparative languages, Sanskrit, the Gothic, the Hittite and some more are required. If I then return to the Greek, I know that I lack a real understanding of the language from the realia, from Greek architecture, archeology, epigraphy, numismatics.

Of course, the coins of the early Roman imperial era meet me in greater interest, and especially the research of Andreas Alföldi, this unique coin scholar, in whose biography I read that he has also earned completely different disciplines, such as the research of Theriomorphie, and, so to speak, even as a pioneer, without being able to rely on any early work, other Immanuel Mersel, who was initially able to compile solid material collections, but then, out of constant Raonnement about mythogenesis, mentally phantasis and, encouraged by Darwins, with which he had previously personally stood in a correspondence, the evolution of the deities from the constellations of the respective astronomical niche.

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While I am in advance of reading the Neo-Lamarckists, penetrating construction noise penetrates through the window; The chat with the foreman, which has been adopted from my complaint, leads me directly to some questions of applied statics, but when I give myself one before returning to the desk, says the label, prepares darjeeling, germinates a shame about my lack of familiarity with the systematics and fermentation type of teas.

Knowledge is oceanic and we only live on the surface. But if you dive down, it is difficult to appear, you will find it difficult, do not like to reappear, and always again, at any point and at any time.

But all the rest of the time is devoted to the study of writing.