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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: What Shoshanna "knows"
  • Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 05:56:52 -0600


>
> 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.
>
I stand corrected.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Don't let your mind wander.
It's too little to be left alone."






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