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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[7]: JEPD Evidence
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:38:29 -0500



Dear Jonathan,

In answer to the first question remaining below and also the snipped
points about sources within the toldot, I would refer you in addition
to William of Occam's Razor. Now I don't think Thomas Aquinas thought
much of that principle. But my preference is to go for the simple
explanation unless there is evidence for the more complex one, rather
than vice versa which is what you are doing.

As for "sepher" in Genesis 5:1, well, it was a written record after
Moses or whoever had written it down. But I agree that this does
somewhat support your position.

Peter

PS As Ian says, I prefer to be referred to as "Peter", or perhaps "Mr.
Kirk", rather than just "Kirk". Thanks, Ian.


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Subject: Re[6]: JEPD Evidence
Author: <jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de> at Internet
Date: 19/12/1999 21:21

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Basically, the only evidence that you have given for Genesis being a single
composition is that it is unlikely that Moses would have had written records.
Wh
y do
you see this as unlikely?

Also, what do you do with the use of the word sepher in Gen 5:1?

Thanks for clarifying your personal position. I also have no axe to grind for
Ge
nesis
being a composite of sources. And I am becoming aware of treatment received
for
not
bowing before the "scholarship cannot involve God" mindset here. (Imagine
what
Thomas Aquinas - or heaven forbid, Anselm - would have had to say about that!)




Jonathan Bailey
Hochschule fr Jdische Studien
Heidelberg
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