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  • From: Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re[2]: Latest Speculation (Peter)
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:30:01 -0500 (EST)



Dear Ian,

Sorry if I misrepresented your opinions. I thought I was summarising
what you had said in various postings, but I don't want to go through
hundreds of them to argue the point! Anyway, you have the right to
clarify your own datings, as you have just done.

You wrote:

"There does seem to have been a general breakdown in our communications.

>Ian wrote to Lloyd:
>
>"Do I understand correctly that despite your acceptance of some form of
>documentary hypothesis that the sources involved are fundamentally a
>reflection of the epoch they refer to rather than of the epoch they were
>written in?"
>
>Perhaps he should allow Lloyd the option of believing both of these,
>because the epoch they refer to is, or at least is close to, the epoch
>they were written in.

Are you implying that the redaction of texts that went towards the making
of an biblical book reflected the opinions and theological viewpoints of a
period several generations if not several hundred years before that
redaction?"

No, I am talking, as I thought Lloyd was, about the opinions and
theological viewpoints of the original writers of the source
documents, and pointing out that (in my view and perhaps also in
Lloyd's) these (or at least much of them) were written close to the
times described in them and accurately reflect those times. I was not
referring to the opinions and theological viewpoints of a hypothetical
redactor; if he had any, for he doesn't seem to have been interested
in harmonising alleged theological contradictions between his sources.

Peter







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