The Baha'i Studies Listserv Understood. How about it being a "more basic" meaning?
Don C On Jun 22, 2013, at 3:50 59AM, Sen McGlinn wrote: > 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:don59...@gmail.com > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-707403-2984294.b3f245cde2371a6f862c8409d53d3...@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 ------------ He who believes himself spiritual proves he is not. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-707418-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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
