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  • From: Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Historiography and Jonathan
  • Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:04:00 +0100


Ken,

You are not reading. If you were you wouldn't have posted this. It's all
been dealt with already.

Basic words:

archaeology, epigraphy, verification, witness accreditation



Ian


At 17.49 27/02/99 -0800, Ken Litwak wrote:
>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
>
>




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