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  • From: "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>
  • To: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>, Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: SV: Scholarship was Re: SV: Hebrew language, antiquity of ? [Cut]
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:32:07 -0400




Niels Peter Lemche wrote:

> > Dave Washburn wrote:
> >
> > NPL wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Actually, what Nils Peter gave is a definition of deconstructionism, or
> > postmodernism.
> >
> 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.
>

Niels is correct, according to my understanding of modernity vs.
post-modernity.
Post-modernity seems to deny the absolute nature of truth, therefore,
competing
theories have equal validity, and opposing truth-claims may both be true.

--

Lee R. Martin
Pastor, Prospect Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee
Instructor in Hebrew and Old Testament
Church of God Theological Seminary
http://earth.vol.com/~lmartin/






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