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  • From: "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Child theme in Isaiah 6-12
  • Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 05:14:20 +0100


>I'm not sure I understand you here. But do you mean that "vaticinium ex
>eventu" is just a matter of the reader's perceptions? On that definition,
>the Isaiah passage is "vaticinium ex eventu" to you but not to me, no
>argument. But scholarship needs something rather less subjective to work
on.

Whether tradition be based on events which actually happened or not is
irrelevant for the tradition to be used as reality in ex eventu prophecy.
All that is necessary is that there is an agreement between reader and
writer as to what "historical" reality is.


Ian






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