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  • From: "Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>, <MC2499 AT mclink.it>
  • Subject: Re[2]: Stop with the Rohl material.
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:03:57 -0500


Ian wrote:

"It would be good if people would stop making assumptions about things
they simply cannot know. I have not read Rohl..."

Enough said. You stand condemned by your own words. You simply cannot
know about Rohl's theories if you have not read them, so instead you
make assumptions about them. Why should I read further?

But in fact I did read further only to find even more clear evidence
that you have no idea what Rohl is talking about. Rohl does NOT reject
the idea that a population called the Philistines arrived in the iron
age - in fact he has very little to say about the iron age. He agrees
that there was no Israelite invasion in the late bronze - he finds it
in the middle bornze, following Dr. Bimson. He disagrees with the
archaeological consensus almost solely in matters of absolute dating.
Where he is revolutionary is mainly in what he says (rather
speculatively) about biblical characters.

If it becomes a generally accepted rule on this list that people
should post details only of their own personal theories and not
describe those of other scholars or alleged scholars not on the list,
I will abide by that. Such a rule would also have to prohibit
criticism of scholars not on the list, and certainly the regurgitation
of other people's critical comments which you must have engaged on if
you have not read the primary evidence of Rohl's theories, his books.
Now I think such a rule would be a ridiculous imposition on a list
like this one. As long as there is no such rule I will post Rohl's
material as I choose. But actually there is not so much left which I
have not already posted over the last couple of weeks.

Peter Kirk





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