Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

I will continue this theme as long as necessary. I have been in this game
for more than 30 years, I know the rules and my colleagues know them as well
wherever they live in the world of the academia. I also know that at the
fringe, some institutions that may consider themselves academic ones,
entertain ideas that are foreign to scholarship. Scholarship is not decided
by a majority vote and although several contributors to this line of
argument seem to think that what is not accepted by people who is running
the game can be accepted nevertheless, they will never counts as serious or
major figures in this business. I think that such people should address
scholars of a certain standard within other fields and see how they react,
when somebody is invoking supernaturalistic phenomena, are continuously
disregarding more than two hundred years of scholarship without presenting
any serious arguments against it (although such arguments are easy to find).
Maybe people of my group is simply waisting our time on such discussions but
it is necessary in order that the field shall survive as an academic
discipline. But I certainly do understand why so few of the top people are
active on the lists and may find thmselves in a foreugn if not hostile
world.

By the way, Peter Kirk's football player is according to the standards of
the world outside the US not football players, since they most of the time
use their hands. A football player is except in the USA what is there
derogatory caller a 'soccer player'. Pele was a football player, Monotano a
quarterback in American  football. 

NPL


> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter_kirk AT sil.org [SMTP:peter_kirk AT sil.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 December, 1999 00:09
> To:   Biblical Hebrew
> Subject:      Re: SV: Re[12]: JEPD Evidence
> 
> 
> Who defines the rules of the game? Who authorises changes in them? And 
> who is the referee? Also it seems the rules are different in different 
> places and traditions. When you say somebody is "not a scholar", is 
> that equivalent to the soccer player calling the American football 
> player "not a football player"?
> 
> Peter Kirk
> 
> 
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> Subject: SV: Re[12]: JEPD Evidence
> Author:  <npl AT teol.ku.dk> at Internet
> Date:    20/12/1999 11:53
> 
> 
> Won't help Jonathan.
> 
> Also the Bbaylonian scribes were scholars, however, not of the modern
> kind. 
> Neither was Luther. Again, it has to do playing by the rules. The rules
> will 
> be changing, yes, and at a time you will have to conclude that according
> to 
> modern standards I will no longer be considered a scholar .. Luther is 
> accoridng to modern standards not a contemporary scholar, rather the
> subject 
> of scholarship. I think I play according to present rules for the game. If
> 
> you follows the rules of yesterday, you are not part of the game. That may
> 
> change according to circumstances, but that is as it is today.
> 
> NPL
> 
> > ----------
> > Fra:         Jonathan Bailey[SMTP:jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de] 
> > Svar til:         Jonathan Bailey
> > Sendt:         20. december 1999 11:54 
> > Til:         Biblical Hebrew
> > Emne:         Re[12]: JEPD Evidence 
> >
> > Thanks for your support Jim. I see acknowledgement from you, a rather 
> > stalwart
> > liberal (if my assessment is correct) that these men, who were all
> willing 
> > to give place
> > to the supernatural, were indeed scholars, as something of a vindication
> 
> > from
> > Lemche's assertions.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jonathan Bailey
> > Hochschule fr Jdische Studien
> > Heidelberg
> >
> > ---------- Original Message ---------- 
> >
> > >At 01:04 AM 12/20/99 +0100, you wrote:
> > >>I will take my place among my brothers Thomas Aquinas, Jerome, Luther,
>
> > and
> > >Origen
> > >>in the Fraternity of the Non-Scholars. 
> >
> > >all in fact extraordinarily trained in their respective fields.
> Luther, 
> > as
> > >you know, had an earned doctorate from Wittenberg.  Aquinas as well was
> a 
> > >result of University training.  Jerome spent years learning from the
> > rabbis.
> > >Origen was a brilliant scholar.  All trained.  None dilettantes. 
> >
> > >Best
> >
> > >Jim
> > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
> >
> > >Jim West, ThD
> > >jwest AT highland.net
> > >http://web.infoave.net/~jwest
> >
> > >"This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put."  Winston 
> > Churchill
> >
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