Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

> Dave Washburn wrote: 
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>       NPL wrote: 
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>       Scholarship 
>       > is really about tearing down accepted mainstream ideas, and most
> advanced 
>       > theories become maintream some day or the other. 
> 
>       According to whom?  This does not exactly seem like a 
>       mainstream definition of scholarship to me. 
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> Actually, what Nils Peter gave is a definition of deconstructionism, or
> postmodernism. 
> In Israel, we also call it "slaughtering sacred cows", and those who apply
> these methods to the history of Zionism are called "New Historians" in the
> current Israeli parlance. 
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> 
> -- 
> Jonathan D. Safren 
> Dept. of Biblical Studies 
> Beit Berl College 
> Beit Berl Post Office 44905 
> Israel 
> 
No, I am not very happy with this definition. Scholarship is about creating
knowledge. This a continuous process of try and error. Everything must be
doubted in order to improve and obtain more knowledge. Just to repeat what
we already know and have accepted is a waste of time.This is not
post-modern, this is in essence modern.

NPL
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