Richard Gotshalk

[jesed]

Hi

Searching in the web, i had find this title that seems interesting "Divination, Order and the Zhouyi", by Richard Gotshalk
http://www.univpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0761813152

Has anybody read this book, or this author?
(Bradford, I see you did mention it in your bibliography, but I don't quite understand your comment)

Best wishes

[ewald]

Bradford's comment (http://www.hermetica.info/F-YiBib.htm) is "Modernist; much too loose with emendations."

I had to look up the word emendation. According to Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=emendation) it means: "An alteration intended to improve: textual emendations made by the editor."

So I suppose that Bradford means that Gotshalk changed the text of the Zhouyi a bit too much. Well, that's what Modernists do.

[jesed]

Thanks Ewald....

[bradford]

Jesed-
I read the book. I read them all at least twice.
Sometimes that was excruciatingly painful.
Gotshalk drove me nuts, moving texts around from line to line
and changing sentences around on the merest whim, and dropping
passages he couldn't understand. He was even worse than Rutt
in this senseless practice. Would that their founder and leader,
Gao Heng, were never born!

[jesed]

Hi Bradford

well, I guess I'll better pass.... :)

Thanks

[bradford]

Everyone knows how much I like to rail at the modernists
Just remember that grain of salt

But I'd still get a library copy first before investing in one