Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>]

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.

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Lee R. Martin
Pastor, Prospect Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee
Instructor in Hebrew and Old Testament
Church of God Theological Seminary
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