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Re: Why Not?

From: "Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Why Not?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 02:02:54 -0500

At 10:53 PM 1/24/99 -0800, Ken Litwak wrote:
>If you add in JEDP to try to establish this, you lose me completely as I
>consider JEDP nonsense from the perspective that a) there are no extant
>copies of these alleged sources, b) it spite of Tigay, there is no
>evidence of any culture, anywhere, doing what is hypothesized for JEDP,
>and c) I view the Documentary Hypothesis in its many forms to create
>more problems than it professes to solve.

As for point (b), what about Tatian's Diatesseron as an example?

Stephen Carlson
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Why Not?, Lloyd Barre, 01/24/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Why Not?, Mark & Mary Markham, 01/24/1999
- Re: Why Not?, Irene Riegner, 01/24/1999
- Re: Why Not?, Ken Litwak, 01/25/1999
- Re: Why Not?, Stephen C. Carlson, 01/25/1999
- Re: Why Not?, Jonathan D. Safren, 01/25/1999
- Re: Why Not?, Jonathan D. Safren, 01/25/1999
- Re: Why Not?, Irene Riegner, 01/25/1999
- Re: Why Not?, Andre Desnitsky, 01/25/1999
- Re: Why Not?, One of the McKays, 01/25/1999