Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Nothing personal against Prof. Garbini. I don't his work otherwise, 
and unfortunately I don't read Italian at all well. I also have to 
admit that I am not an expert in this field, but that does not stop me 
spotting strained logic in his arguments. I would be interested to 
know if any of his further publications defend his thesis, that the 
Tel-Dan inscriptions are forgeries, from the types of criticism I made 
below, which I am sure are hardly original - or has Garbini changed 
his opinion, since he wrote not long after the discovery? Perhaps 
George Athas can comment on this.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[3]: Historical David (Tel-Dan) (Peter)
Author:  mc2499 AT mclink.it at internet
Date:    27/01/1999 19:07


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: 

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