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  • From: "Christian M. M. Brady" <cbrady AT tulane.edu>
  • To: H-Bible <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Ripples in the text (foll. Saturating the airwaves)
  • Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:00:31 -0600


On 3/5/01 4:15 PM, "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it> wrote:

>>> I don't believe this is a salient point. You can't date those sources
>>> either. You may not have a particular reason for doubting the truthfulness
>>> of these sources, but if you are doing history, you cannot assume the
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> truthfulness of them.
>>
>> That's the problem. Not everyone is "doing history".
>
> The methodology is not particularly different if you are doing text analysis
> or perhaps linguistic analysis. It involves being able to show your
> foundations in the data you are using. It's about what comes out of the
> data, not what you put into it.

But there are other activities that one can do with the texts as well.
Perhaps Bill was referring to theology?

Cb
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