Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Raymond de Hoop <rdehoop AT keyaccess.nl>]

On 02-03-2001 13:17 Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk> wrote:

> 
> Dear George,
> 
> This argument is clearly below your usual standard. It can just as
> easily be turned around to say that the credulous people who accept the
> inscription as genuine, do so because they have already accepted the
> biblical story about David to be history or almost history. I cannot really
> believe that you mean this, because your argument might be understood as a
> recommendation: don't read Garbini! He is no good-one of those liberals whom
> you should never read or pay attention to such negative and dishonest
> persons. Just think of Dever's, Rendburg's and others more or less insane
> attacks on the so-called revisionists.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> NP
> 
> 
> PS: Ugaritic is probably not so important in this place. We should
> really stay with inscriptions from the Iron Age and not invoke Ugaritic or
> Biblical examples at this stage.
> 

Dear Peter,

Apparently you've missed a colon here, for it was a reply TO George not FROM
him. (I will react in another mail on your comments),

Regards,

Raymond