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  • From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: What Shoshanna "knows"
  • Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:12:47 -0500



We all come into this field with a certain amount of faith in
something. For Shoshanna it's faith in her religious heritage, for a
certain other whom I won't name it's faith in denying everything he
possibly can, for others of us it's faith in the Christian framework
with its attendant views about the Hebrew Scriptures, for still others
it's faith in science or archaeology or whatever. Granted that we're
(officially) supposed to keep faith-based arguments out of it and be
as cross-cultural as possible, none of us ever fully achieves it. As
soon as one says "this is legend" or "obviously a miraculous
element has been injected into this" or such, one is making a faith
statement. When Shoshanna says that the Jewish greats of the
past were led by God in their interpretations,



That's not what I said.

I said that they put into writing, a body of knowledge that was handed down orally, that originally came from G-d, along with the written Torah, and that therefore they understood the written Torah much better than Biblical scholars who look for meaning by dissecting words and letters, divorced from this tradition of knowledge.

Once we were dispersed, it had to be written down.

Shoshanna




she's making a faith
statement. The only difference is that the latter is easier to
recognize than the former by the wider audience.





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