Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

> > You'll find that the words [the brother of] are
> missing from 2 Samuel 21:19.
> > Compare 1 Chronicles 20:5. Elhanan slew *Lahmi*;
> David slew Goliath.
> 
> > Shalom
> > Ben
> 
> This is perhaps POSSIBLE, but I think you will find
> that almost all modern commentators agree that the

> Chronicles version is an attempt to harmonise the
> obvious discrepancy. 

So what?  Is this truth by consensus?  We have to ask what kinds 
of presuppositions these commentators begin with, what their 
attitude toward the text is, and a host of other questions.  More 
important, we have to look into the text itself, not what somebody 
says about it.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated."  C. S. Lewis