Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

I intend to hold out until someone produces some evidence, rather than 
some hearsay that Kitchen had some evidence which ended up on the 
cutting room floor. Where is the evidence? Put up or shut up!

I am not sure how to take the Bible passage you quote if it is not, as 
I must assume it is not, an ad hominem attack.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[5]: FW: Just a clarification
Author:  <Polycarp66 AT aol.com> at Internet
Date:    14/02/2000 17:55


In a message dated 2/14/2000 10:36:57 AM Central Daylight Time, 
peter_kirk AT sil.org writes:

<< Well, maybe. But that is hearsay evidence which is not admissible,
 even when the hearsay is from someone as trustworthy as Kitchen. Let 
 Kitchen or anyone else write up and publish their explanations of the 
 Apis bull datings. Then I'll take them seriously.

 Peter Kirk


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 Subject: Re[3]: FW: Just a clarification 
 Author:  <Polycarp66 AT aol.com> at Internet 
 Date:    13/02/2000 18:47


 In a message dated 2/13/2000 2:56:11 PM Central Daylight Time, 
 peter_kirk AT sil.org writes:

 <<
  In this way you may be able to falsify Rohl's general redating (though 
  you also need to explain his evidence from Apis bull datings etc etc). 
  However, I should remind you that this does not falsify Rohl's 
  identifications of biblical and archaeological events, except for those 
  who are committed to the chronology of Thiele etc based on the internal 
  biblical evidence. Rohl actually has two quite distinct theses, which 
  are link only by Thiele's questionable chronology.
   >>

 Didn't I just read that Kitchen explained the Apis bull datings in the part 
 of his interview with Rohl that ended up on the cutting-room floor?
  >>

I see, you intend to hold out until the last "i" is dotted and the last "t" 
is crossed.

 And this is the writing that was inscribed:  MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of the matter:  MENE, God has numbered the days 
of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 TEKEL, you have been weighed in 
the balances and found wanting; 28 PERES, your kingdom is divided and given 
to the Medes and Persians."

The Revised Standard Version, (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.) 1973, 
1977.

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