Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Christian M. M. Brady" <cbrady AT tulane.edu>]

On 3/3/01 10:50 AM, "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it> wrote:

>>>>> What got put into the mouth of Jesus doesn't equal what Jesus
>>>>> said. You are historicizing literary figures. Do you think
>>>>> Shakespeare's Richard III is the real Richard III?
>>>> 
>>>> Richard III is obviously *intended* by its *author* as a
>>>> non-historical characterization in drama.
>>> 
>>> When you don't have anything other than the text (or the
>>> performance) you can't be so smart.
>> 
>> Yes you can, Ian. Skakespeare's works were presented to people
>> and written for people who knew what genre it was (some
>> exceptions maybe).
> 
> I must take it that you are refusing to understand, Dan.
> 
> You show no mechanism to separate what the particular gospel writer you may
> select writes about his character(s) from what Shakespeare writes about his
> character(s).

Sorry folks. I can't resist: do we really know who "Shakespeare" was? Any
Baconians out there? With all due respect, some of Ian's arguments about the
certainty of authorship with Shakespeare in *contrast* with that of biblical
authors assume a lot of a man about whom we know very little and whom some
believe did not write the literature attributed to him...

;-)

Cb
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