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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Goliath
  • Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:57:24 -0700


> > > 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.
>
By way of clarification, my point is that it matters little what a
majority of commentators say, which seemed to be the authority to
which Jan was appealing.

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




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