Dierk, Triclinium is a classical word and can apparently can indicate the three-sided couch upon which one reclined to eat or the dining room. To my knowledge it is not a monastic term (and I've been hanging around a Benedictine monastery for more than twenty years). Perhaps you're thinking of refectory, which is the monastic term for a dining hall, and which I've heard used of one of the rooms in the ruins at Qumran.
David Suter Saint Martin's College -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dierk van den Berg Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:31 AM To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Subject: Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables Concerning Kh. Qumran monastic terminology suggests a strange similarity of some 1.000 years of contemporary history in between. This, it seems, is the teaching left us by Saint Thomas - the more openly it remains a figure of speech, the more it is a dissimilar similitude and not literal, the more a metaphor reveals its truth (Eco, The Name of the Rose). So what is the true intention of a monastic terminology engrafted to ancient Judaism? _Dierk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dierk van den Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <g-megillot@McMaster.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables > Why is this anachronistic and Catholic? I searched Perseus for this > term and got 75 hits from such writers as Cicero, Pliny, and Suetonius. > > http://www.perseus.tufts.edu > > On Sunday, December 26, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Dierk van den Berg wrote: > > > Triclinium > > (an anachronistic term with Catholic connotation) > > _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
