The Baha'i Studies Listserv On 21 Jun 2013 at 21:51, Don Calkins wrote: > So an alternative, more literal, translation would be - "These thick > clouds are the exponents of idle fancies and vain imaginings, who are > none other but the learned of Persia. . . . . . . . . . . .
That is not more, or less. literal than "divines." You could also say that the "learned ones of Baha" are "the divines of Baha." It is one word, translated in different ways according to context. I generally tend to use "divine" in my translation, because the high status of the hard sciences and the collapse of the religious sciences means that "learning" and "scholar" and "science" no longer have the religious connotation that they had in the lifetime of Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha -- Sen McGlinn Academic Text Services 06 8200 8758 (00316-8200-8758) __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-707403-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
