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  • 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: historiography
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:20:19 +0100



> Because in this area as in others we follow analogy. We have methods of
> dealign with other texts which tell us that the date of an extant fragment
> is not the date of the document. You have to give a reason as to why the
> dating of the Biblical text is not to be approached in the same way as the
> dating of Plato and Aristotle.
>
>
> moshe shulman mshulman AT NOSPAMix.netcom.com 718-436-7705
>
[Niels Peter Lemche] I have already answered that question: read
the scholarly literature from the last 200 years. Ot at least some qualified
introduction to OT studies. It is available, and I gave an excellent title
for people with a conservative outlook. But also for people on my line.

NPL





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