Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

Dear Peter,

It's a shame you feel the necessity to ridicule the work of a respected
world-class scholar in the field of Semitic studies. I would have thought
that there was a lot to learn from one's teachers. It is the student who
doesn't take note of what such a teacher says that usually fails miserably.

You may not agree with what he says, but have you really got the facilities
to criticise Garbini's work?

If you read Italian I could suggest several score of articles to see the
man's work so that you would have a sounder basis on which to make
comments. (The reason I had to translate this particular article was that
too few scholars read Italian and I was asked to translate it.)


Ian

At 20.08 27/01/99 -0500, Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG wrote:
>
>How predictable! Someone doesn't like the conclusions that would 
>follow from certain evidence and so finds some excuse for declaring 
>that evidence a forgery. Even Ian believes this professor enough to 
>translate his article and put it on his web site; but at least he 
>reminds us of George's web site also.
>
>Let's assume for now that the Tel-Dan inscriptions are a forgery. What 
>a careless forger! He made the inscription far too readable, a dead 
>giveaway. Yet he seems to have been quite a scholar. Not only has he 
>used believable letter shapes, close to those in various inscriptions 
>of the correct period. He has also invented his own aberrant dialect 
>of Aramaic (when it would have been so much easier to follow a 
>standard model), which of course cannot be anything like the actual 
>speech of the Arameans who conquered this area, although we have no 
>data to say what this speech was really like. Yet also what a 
>restrained forger! How he must have agonised about including only half 
>the name of king ending in -yahu, rather than a whole name of a 
>Biblical king, and to leave out the word break in BYTDWD, just in case 
>someone might think a slightly less spoiled forgery too obvious!
>
>:-^)
>
>Peter Kirk
>
>
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>Subject: Re: Historical David (Tel-Dan)
>Author:  mc2499 AT mclink.it at internet 
>Date:    26/01/1999 23:29
>
>
>If anyone is interested in an analysis of the Tel-Dan inscription written 
>by Giovanni Garbini, Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Rome 
>"La Sapienza", I have a version translated at
>
>        http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/5210/tel_dan.htm
>
>And while we are here, George Athas maintains the Tel Dan Inscription 
>Website at:
>
>        http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gathas/teldan.htm
>
>
>Ian
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