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  • From: Dave Humpal <ebedyah AT Elite.Net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Historiography and Ian
  • Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:39:19 -0800


Ian,
Throughout your posts, you keep dismissing evidence as "material that
would not be acceptable in a court of law."

It seems to me your parameters for acceptable evidence are far too
narrow. Bible scholarship is not the same as the criminal justice
system. If we would apply the same standard to textual criticism that
you seem to insist on applying to historiography, the field would be
mostly empty and barren. The evidence that we have for much of Biblical
scholarship is at best circumstantial. Reasoned speculation, educated
guesses, and textual hypotheses are part and parcel of Biblical
scholarship. If we would apply your courtroom standards to ANE
scholarship, we would have to dismiss most of what has been written in
the field. And we would have to ignore almost all the proposed
emendations in BHS and probably most qeres. It seems to me that any
study of history and ancient texts requires more latitude than a
courtroom would allow.

Rev. Dave Humpal ebedyah AT elite.net
First Christian Church, Merced, California
"Help for the Hurting Christian" Site =
http://www.elite.net/~ebedyah/PastorsHomePage.htm
Church Site = http://www.elite.net/~ebedyah/FirstChristianHomePage.htm



  • Historiography and Ian, Dave Humpal, 02/22/1999

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