Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Ian asked:

"Would you trust someone who is reporting what someone reported to 
them about what someone reported to them about what someone reported 
to them about what someone reported to them when deciding what 
actually happened in a legal situation?"

Maybe not, but I do put a fairly high degree of trust in the accuracy 
of both oral and written texts in the appropriate contexts. Courts of 
law tend to trust the written records of other courts of law, even 
when taken down by a stenographer then copied out in full then no 
doubt photocopied and faxed many times. That is not the same as 
hearsay.

Peter