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RE: Autographs, MSS and REAL Historiography Re: Methods in bib lical scholarship

From: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
To: 'Moshe Shulman' <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Autographs, MSS and REAL Historiography Re: Methods in bib lical scholarship
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:49:18 +0100

> > [Niels Peter Lemche] I understand your point, but I asked you to
> >read the theory before you read the examples. Thucydides and Herodotus
> were
> >considered as two very different cases of histoery writing in Antiquity.
> >They were well aware of the difference. It is not something later
> >rationalization created.
>
> Maybe, but there are clear purposes in his writting, just as there were to
> Josephus.
>
> moshe shulman mshulman AT NOSPAMix.netcom.com 718-436-7705
>
[Niels Peter Lemche]
This is hardly the relevant criterium here. Did Herodotus not have a
clear purpose?

NPL

RE: Autographs, MSS and REAL Historiography Re: Methods in bib lical scholarship, Niels Peter Lemche, 12/28/1999
- RE: Autographs, MSS and REAL Historiography Re: Methods in biblical scholarship, Moshe Shulman, 12/28/1999