Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dave,

the distinction is between scholars including evangelical ones and the
evangelical layperson. IWhen you get the book, I recommended, you will see
that they do not in any serious way defend this part of the exodus
narrative, neither does Kenneth Kitchen who is one of the real spokesmen
(and here I mean '-men-') of the historical exodus. Maybe some laypersons
might look at these as too liberal, but then they will have problems finding
any person classified as a scholar who will go with them. There will be very
few left. So let's turn the question: Is Kitchen a liberal that should not
be followed? 

NPL


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Washburn [SMTP:dwashbur AT nyx.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 27 January, 2000 14:38
> To:   Biblical Hebrew
> Subject:      Re: FW: Dating the Exodus (long)
> 
> Niels wrote:
> > > Somehow the discussion about smoking or burning columns is very
> strange,
> > > indeed--to put it mildly. Already Reimarus and Lessing mocked such
> > > assumtions more than 200 years ago. 
> 
> So what?  How do we know they were right?  Anybody can mock 
> anything, but that doesn't mean they were correct just because 
> they were well known or influential in their times.
> 
> It was before the period of critical
> > > scholarship--you might call it pre- or proto-critical. Our evangelical
> > > friends must understand that we--the scholars--do not mock their
> beliefs
> > > but it is difficult to be serious when confronted with all sorts of
> > > arguments that were put aside as irrelevant hundred of years ago. 
> 
> Excuse me, but this subtle setting up of "evangelical" versus 
> "scholars" as if the two are polar opposites is a cautious but 
> definite form of mockery in itself, and is built on the assumption 
> that an evangelical cannot be a scholar, by definition.  This has 
> never been shown, and indeed can't be without resorting to tons of 
> other assumptions.
> 
> 
> Dave Washburn
> http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
> Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth;
> give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name.
>                                    Psalm 86:11
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