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This is equally true of other codes of law, such as the Laws of Manu in India. , all show the same tendency to stylistic uniformity. In the case of the Talmud we have something else; here individual opinions and stories are remembered separately and the association of ideas and content provides the connecting link. Moreover, the present uniformity of the Babylonian Talmud should not mislead one into assuming that Talmudic That it did not is established by comparing parallel recensions of Talmudic material such as are found in the Yerushalmi and the Bavli.
Starting with the accepted distinction between conceptual and perceptual treatment of visual images he showed with a wealth of illustration from Egyptian art as well as from the drawings of children and savages, how dominant conceptual art was in Egypt and other lands in pre-Greek times. Analysis of various types of conceptual reproduction of images yielded important historical, aesthetic, and interpreta- Turning to sculpture he showed that it developed directly from line art through the simple device of drawing five aspects of an object on five sides of a block of stone which was tive criteria.
The It is Historical Interpretation of Archaeological advisable to enter into more Data detail in treating the his- documents than in discussing the use of written documents by historians, since methods and limitations are much less generally understood in the former case. It is true that interest in ancient architecture and art is torical exploitation of unwritten nearly as old as that in literature, but it is equally true that the critical study of the latter goes back to Bentley and Person in the late seventeenth century and was notably advanced by men Wolf and J.