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  • From: Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Re[4]: Tel Dan & David
  • Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 01:43:56 +0100


At 19.41 04/01/00 -0500, peter_kirk AT sil.org wrote:
>Actually, I don't see how the jury can be out yet if the court is
>still waiting for a witness, Fred Cryer. I accept that the final
>verdict is not yet given. But in a real court, experienced lawyers can
>often tell you long before the jury goes out or comes back in which
>way the verdict is going to go, that the evidence is clearly pointing
>one way or the other.

Punters pick winners, but one has to wait till the race is over before one
gets one's money.

>Occasionally, I suppose, the last witness brings
>up some new point which confounds others' expectations and swings the
>whole trial. So, let's see Fred Cryer's evidence. Until then, let's
>stop trying to prejudge the issue in either direction. That includes
>you, Ian, stopping making postings implying that the inscription is a
>fraud by putting it in the same category as the proven fraud Piltdown
>Man.

Here you go again, reading my mind Peter. While people are irrationally
taking the Tel Dan inscription for granted, if I bring people's attention
to the fact that frauds have been known in the past, I'm accused of
implying that it is a fraud. This is unjustifiable.

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt about in your two
dimentional (yes/no, right/wrong, true/false) world, Peter!


Cheers,


Ian





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