Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Stoney Breyer" <stoney AT touchwood.net>]

Oh, dear.

I apologize to both Greg and Peter (Daniel and Trevor, too) for having 
delayed my response to their much-valued postings and thus giving occasion 
for this matter to get out of hand.  My excuse is that I am trying to get 
my ducks in a row and present a less offhand, more considered response, 
which will follow in due course.

For the record (although I am grateful for Peter's defense) I was neither 
annoyed nor intimidated by Greg's remarks.  On the contrary  one of the 
pleasures of this list is the passion its participants invest in the 
discussion, and if Greg expressed himself a trifle emphatically, why, as 
Bernard Shaw says, "Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of 
style."

Greg has, moreover, already been considerably exercised on the subject at 
issue in the course of the debate over nominals.  And I quite appreciate 
his irritation at the intrusion of a confessed amateur into the substance 
of his profession.  Perhaps "I know more Hebrew than you" is an ad hominem 
argument; but it's a fact, and I concede a relevant one.

And by the way: I don't claim that my "literary scholarship" confers any 
particular authority.  You can walk into any college library and pick up a 
thousand works by guys with same PhD in criticism I hold which exhibit all 
the sensitivity to nuance of your average mushroom.

Regards to all,

Stoney


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