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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[14]: Genesis 1 & 2 (Peter)
  • Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 23:29:56 -0500


Please, list moderators, how long do I have to suffer this kind of
abuse simply for following the scholarly method of critically reading
what other scholars have written and drawing conclusions from it?

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[13]: Genesis 1 & 2 (Peter)
Author: <mc2499 AT mclink.it> at Internet
Date: 07/12/1999 01:54

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.. All you have to do is show some evidence, rather than opting for
authority, but you almost never do....

<snip>

.. All the literary evidence...

PK: Except for that which you have arbitrarily chosen to reject.
Exactly what literary evidence are you referring to? Do you have
better evidence of its dating than I have given for Hebrews and LXX
Genesis?

.. from the cultural background of the area goes for creation out of
pre-existent matter...

<snip>

Impute circularity
Invoke authority
Go off in tangents
Impose a priori theological understandings
Avoid ancient understandings
Ignore both archaeology and epigraphy

>so shut up!

Impressive scholarship, Peter.

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