TWO NOTES ON ISAIAH xli 5–7: I

I-57: Embolization of Varicocele

Two Notes on Subshifts

We prove two unrelated results about subshifts. First, we give a condition on the lengths of forbidden words that is sufficient to guarantee that the corresponding subshift is nonempty. The condition implies that, for example, any sequence of binary words of lengths 5, 6, 7, . . . is avoidable. As another application, we derive a result of Durand, Levin and Shen [2, 3] that there are infinite s...

“i Saw the Lord”: Observations on the Christian Reception History of Isaiah 6

In the pages to follow I shall examine exegetical, doctrinal, hymnographic, and iconographic productions that illustrate the rich reception history of Isa 6 in early Christianity. It appears that the earliest, Christological interpretation of this text was superseded by a Trinitarian one and that the exegetical shift occurred first in doctrinal and exegetical writings, while hymnography and ico...

Notes on Sandflies. Part I

I. Notes on Structured Programming

These notes have the status of "Letters written to myself": I wrote them down because, without doing so, I found myself repeating the same arguments over and over again. When reading what I had written, I was not always too satisfied. For one thing, I felt that they suffered from a marked verbosity. Yet I do not try to condense them (now), firstly because that would introduce another delay and ...