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[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

I don't think our friend did actually state what you say. The closest 
I can find is "I do favor strongly the ancient Jewish writers and 
their commentaries up to a point, and that is, I leave them when they 
try to under mine the Messiahship of Jesus Christ." Now this is 
clearly not going to win the author Jewish friends. But he is not 
rejecting texts on theological grounds, he is rejecting arguments and 
doctrinal positions: his point is that he (as a Christian) accepts 
Jewish arguments on textual matters but not on doctrinal ones. 
Technically such a comment is indeed out of bounds, but I think we 
must allow people to make qualifications on how far they agree with 
another author. For example, a Jewish b-hebrew member might want to 
express agreement on a technical matter with a Christian interpreter, 
but should surely be allowed to make it clear that he does not accept 
the wider doctrinal position of that interpreter. This is, I think, 
what our anonymous friend is trying to do.

Our friend also says that he settles textual differences between LXX 
traditions based on one of the oldest witnesses to the text, the New 
Testament. That may be dubious text-critical method, but it is not the 
same as "reject[ing] certain texts based on their theological 
implications."

Peter Kirk



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Subject: Re[3]: Textual Criticism (and the rejected post)
Author:  <lewreich AT javanet.com> at Internet
Date:    21/10/1999 15:33


In the rejected post, the writer clearly stated that he rejected certain 
texts based on their theological implications.  That form of argumentation 
is clearly out of bounds for this list.

Lewis Reich

Peter Kirk wrote:


> I agree that anonymous messages should not be posted. (Was it
> anonymous when Don first found it?) And I think a very good reason for 
> considering this inappropriate is simply its unscholarly approach
> (though that does not mean there are no grains of truth in the
> speculation presented as dogmatic truth). But I am concerned at your 
> comment that "the person's post contains ad hominem, faith-based
> arguements, which our charter forbids".


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