Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ian Hutchesson <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

At 20.45 24/01/00 -0700, Dave Washburn wrote:
>> It might be advisable if people stopped quoting Rohl's "Waste of Time" as
>> though it had much value. 
>
>Your view of Rohl is well known.  There just happen to be many 
>who don't share it.

It won't change the evidence regarding the dendrochronology. For that
matter the C14 data is getting to cover the same periods as well.

>I have shown that his manipulation of the Amarna
>> evidence is blatant and not to be trusted, especially where the evidence
>> deals with relations between Egypt and the other great powers. (If the work
>> is needed I can post it off-list.)
>
>As I recall, having been a participant in that discussion, all you 
>showed was that you know how to throw rocks and cite secondary 
>sources.  

(Like the Amarna letters. As to the secondary sources, you would have known
had you looked at them, what the primary sources were.)

>I also recall that, for all your fussing and fuming, you 
>admitted many times that you hadn't even read the book.  So don't 
>expect to be taken too seriously on this issue.

I don't ask to be taken seriously. I ask you to look at the facts that I
provided in the last post while you assiduously ignored. This is endemic.
Ignore what you can't give a slick answer for.

The facts are pretty much available whether you ignore them or not. All you
have to do is look and decide for yourself. Look. 

I thought you weren't reading my stuff. Why don't you do us both a favour
and go back to that policy instead of gicving me the rhetoric?


Ian