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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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Goliath,
Jan Britten, 02/03/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Goliath, Jan Britten, 02/05/2001
- Re: Goliath, Daladier Lima, 02/05/2001
- Re: Goliath, Dave Washburn, 02/05/2001
- Re: Goliath, Dave Washburn, 02/06/2001
- RE: Goliath, Dan Wagner, 02/08/2001
- Re: Goliath, Ian Hutchesson, 02/08/2001
- RE: Goliath, Peter Kirk, 02/09/2001
- Re: Goliath, Raymond de Hoop, 02/09/2001
- Re: Goliath, Ian Hutchesson, 02/09/2001
- RE: Goliath, Peter Kirk, 02/10/2001
- RE: Goliath, Dan Wagner, 02/13/2001
- Re: RE: Goliath, Ian Charles Hutchesson, 02/14/2001
- RE: RE: Goliath, Dan Wagner, 02/14/2001
- Re: RE: Goliath, Banyai, 02/14/2001
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