Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

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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