Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

I only have one thing to say about this, and then I will not post on 
this any further:

[snip]
> You need to know what the status quo is before questioning it. Egyptology
> is a lot more "hard science" than anything to do with the OT. You find Rohl
> convincing regarding the restructuring of history (as implied by his
> redating of Ramses II), but what do you know about how the status quo
> dating has come about, through Rohl? It would seem so -- defeat at the 
> start.

Ian, I never said a word about Rameses II.  You're the one who 
keeps bringing him up.  If you had bothered to read my original 
post on this topic, you would have seen that I specifically said I 
wasn't sure about some of his treatments of individual persons, but 
that I thought he made his case for the need to restructure the 
Third Intermediate Period.  That's all I said, and I had really hoped 
that intellectual honesty would prevail so that the discussion would 
be narrowed to that topic.  Obviously, you don't want to do that.  
It's clear that, not only are you unwilling to read Rohl before you 
start sniping at him, but you aren't even willing to read what I 
actually wrote before you start sniping at me.  I have better things 
to do.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Ich veranlassenarbeitenworken mein Mojo."