William Blake and the Bible: Reading and Writing the Law
Samuel Beckett notes an etymological connection between the origin of the word law and the act of reading in the evolution of the Latin word lex (Beckett 11). The word lex originally meant a crop of acorns and its correlative verb legere meant to gather (acorns). Gradually, lex came to mean a gather...
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University of Edinburgh
2006-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/572 |