Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ken Litwak <kdlitwak AT concentric.net>]

Ian Hutchinson  wrote in part:

>Or till people begin to apply stricter historiographical
>methods?

I am still waiting to know, Ianm what your methodological basis is,
whose well-accepted historiographical principles you follow.  I can't
tell that you've read anyone outside of biblical studies in the area of
historiography, and in spite of my multiple requests, refuse to ever
talk about method.  All you wan to do is say, here's a fact, as though
things were that simple.  So I'm all for applying stricter
historiographical methods, but I can't see you doing so because so far
as I can tell, if you follow any, you won't admit to what they are.     

   Again, let me suggest that it is methodologically unsound to date a
document by its earliest MS.  YOu keep dating biblical texts to the 2nd
century.  Yet, you wont' answer my question.  Was Aristotle's Rhetorica
written in the MIddle Ages, from whence our earliest MS comes?  If not,
then you need to find a more defensible view of texts.  


Ken Litwak