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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Re[2]: Stop with the Rohl material.
  • Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:57:05 -0700


>
> > This kind of attack is as unscholarly as anything I've seen recently.
> > "Pinocchio's nose grew when he lied. You have a big nose.
> > Therefore you must be lying." What kind of ridiculous guilt by
> > association is this?
> >
> Of course it is scholarly. If Dave Washburn thinks that it is
> unscholarly, he hereby says that he does not know what scholarship is about.
> It has to do with sifting the evidence, proposing theories, falsifying
> theorues, evaluating the evidence again, proposing new theories etc, etc.
> and ot goes on and on. If there is at the beginning no evidence--and I
> repeat there is no evidence for the claim that Saul belonged to the Amarna
> period, it is a wild shot in the darkness. It cannot be refited because
> there is no evidence, and it cannot be vindicated because there is none.

Translation: if NPL says there's no evidence, that's scholarly; if
David Rohl says there is, that's unscholarly. 'Nuff said.

[snip]
> We have had this discussion about what scholarship is several times
> over the last two months. Remember that it is the scholars who decide the
> rules of their game, not laypersons. The lay can put forward ideas, even
> discuss them but without the basic training that includes the ability to
> distinguish between theory and postulate, there is little chance that the
> layperson can stand up when it comes to a disxcussion with the
> professionals.

Of course, Niels is assuming that both Rohl and I are lay persons;
of course we must be, since we disagree with him (and apparently
this is the only criterion). He is right about one thing, though: we
have been down this road before and I don't care to go there again.
I will conclude simply by saying that it is not enough to define
one's detractors out of the game. History will decide.


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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