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  • From: "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: The daughter of Jeftah died? (Christian)
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:42:09 +0200


>> When you say "brought together" by a D narrator,
>> who was that D-narrator, when did he live, how did
>> he know the story?
>> I sense the anger these questions arouse; we tend to
>> get angry when we run up against questions which
>> challenge the bedrock of our faith, of who we are as people.
>
>But Lisbeth, your questions, valid though they are, do not undermine or
>challenge whether or not the events were historical. I think everyone would
>agree that we cannot *prove* (beyond the text) that these events happened.
>In the same way none of us can *prove* (beyond the text) any theories about
>authorship and transmission with respect to, well most of the biblical
>texts.
>
>As I said your questions are valid, but irrelevant in terms of evaluating
>historicity.

You have no other way of evaluating historicity other than
to deal with the epistemological problems of the sources.
Although it is not a sufficient condition it is a necessary
one.


Ian






  • Re: The daughter of Jeftah died? (Christian), Ian Hutchesson, 06/04/2002

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