Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ashley Crane" <acrane AT harvestwest.wa.edu.au>]

Hi Bill

I agree on your point

> As you seem to delight in point out, the evidence which would tell
> us when they were written is lost, or at the very least unknown to us.
> Waiting until we know the date of composition before attempting
> to understand the texts is a pointless waste of time. I would
> be dead before I was allowed to attempt to understand them.

Whilst there is importance in establishing the date and authorship, the
meaning of the text is still evident and much of the efforts to establish
firm authorship, dating etc seems, at least for me, an exercise in futility.

Ashley

Ashley Crane
Principal
Harvest West Bible College
Western Australia