Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT sil.org]

Don't forget that the Bible is still the world's best seller, and 
millions of people are committed to encouraging others to read it. So 
there is a lot of support, even quite a lot of money around for new 
translations etc, and this filters back to money for research and 
training. If people wanted to read Homer, or to persuade others to, no 
doubt the support for research would come. Sad to say, the days of 
research into ancient texts just "because they are there" have come to 
an end.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: (motives) atheism and Hebrew scholarship
Author:  a.c.smith AT juno.com at internet
Date:    01/12/1998 06:08


Ken's post (below) raised some similar questions for me.

I would reverse Ken's question: he asked "why do people study the 
Tanakh?" and I ask "why is the Tanakh the object of so much study?"

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