[b-hebrew] FROM MODERATORS ON YHWH THREADS
B. M. Rocine
brocine at twcny.rr.com
Wed Jul 27 09:52:37 EDT 2005
FROM THE MODERATORS OF B-HEBREW:
Dear B-Haveray,
First off, congratulations on maintaining this long and busy set of
threads on YHWH with mostly helpful and friendly tone and content.
Second, it is clear that we have strayed from that tone and content and
thereby violated our list charter, which is available at
http://www.ibiblio.org/bhebrew/.
The list may well have already "self-corrected." If so, disregard the
following. Please desist in calling each other blind or arrogant or any
other such demeaning slams. Please desist in trying to correct the
faith (or non-faith!) position of a fellow member as soon as his or her
faith-position "leaks" into a post. By all means, do not challenge
someone who is a member of the list to "read the Tanakh!" as if he or
she does not.
Additionally, when we have discontinued discussing the Biblical Hebrew
language and text, we have strayed from the mission of this list. This
forum is not the place to discuss what one *should* believe or how one
should decide what to believe in the sectarian sense.
The moderators do not want to discontinue the thread or put any members
on moderation setting. This we will do if personal attack or sectarian
strife continues.
Third, b-hebrew is *not* a scholarly list. We are pleased to have many
scholars on the list and to hear from these experts. We are also
pleased to have lay people and clergy (who are not professional
academics) on the list and to hear their perspectives as well. While
they may not be experts, they have free access to contribute to the
board. No one viewpoint owns the list, including the "scholarly
consensus," whatever that is. Even scholars must understand, when they
join such a list, that they enter without a uniform, so to speak. In
other words, each member is free to value another member's
professional/academic credentials as he desires.
Thank you for your consideration.
Shalom,
Bryan Rocine
b-hebrew co-chair
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