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His Friend Ezra: By the end of the 1st century A. D. the Hebrew Old Testament canon was fixed at the Council of Jamnia, and the "writings" included the three poetical books (Psalms, Proverbs, and Job); the five scrolls (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther); one prophecy (the apocalyptic book of Daniel); and two historical books, Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles—a total of 11 books. The criteria for including all books were (1) early date, that is, not later than Ezra, and (2) anonymous authorship.
The angels shall measure the secrets of all. Not one shall escape. c
His friend Ezra Pound, poet and spokesman for the Vorticist group of English abstract painters, called the instrument a vortoscope and the results wrtographs. Coburn held an exhibition of them together with some of his recent paintings in 1917. The paintings were representational; Pound, in his speech at the opening, dismissed them as "Post-Impressionist," but for the vortographs he had high praise. Coburn's venture into abstract art, however, was brief and he laid the vortoscope away and made no more exposures with it. |
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