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  • From: Jonathan Bailey <jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew list <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Ethics of our Profession
  • Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 05:47:25 +0100


I am earnestly dismayed at the group of people who are attacking Rohl without
having
read him. I have stayed out of this discussion because I have not read Rohl.
I, as a 2nd
year grad student know that is belongs to scholarly method to read a work
before
discounting it with the type of authority that is being claimed here. I would
like to know
that those who are bashing Rohl in such great detail without having read him
are
proving themselves to be examples to me and young future scholars like me of
what
we should try to avoid upon receiving our degrees and entering our careers.
Their
utter abandonment of restraint and prudent judgment in order to speak with out
knowledge so they can support their prejudices is an embarrassment to the
scholarly
community and does a lot to show what types of tendentious agendas are really
behind the methods of a great number of people who deceptively claim to have
an
interest in uncovering the truth about biblical history. In fact, they are
interested in
satisfying their own pride and protecting the egos and reputations of those
whose
theories they have subscribed to, and therefore they must attack and discount
out of
hand anyone who attempts to modify their corpus of dogma without even reading
the
proposed modifications.

This is really a sad day. The ethics of our profession have really been layed
low today.
Reminds me of Watergate.




"If there are many wisemen in a city, this means that the city will soon
fall."
Babylonian proverb

Jonathan Bailey
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien
Heidelberg
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/9707/index.html




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