Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Sujata <shevaroys AT yahoo.com>]

Chris,
Thank you for your patience. I mistook what Kevin
meant by "event". My apologies.

By inspiration, in this context, I understand it as
written by the leading of God (i.e., that it is the
word of God), NOT as a scenery would be inspiration
for a painting. In that context, often one reads in
the Old Covenant  the words "The Word of God came to
me" which I believe is essentially the same as my
understanding of inspiration.

Best wishes,
Sujata

--- "Heard, Christopher"
<Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu> wrote:

> Sujata,
> 
> I may have misunderstood, but I took Kevin's point
> this way: Kevin is  
> asking about people's understandings of the concept
> of "inspiration"  
> _during a particular time span_. He is interested in
> "pre-exilic  
> Hebrew understandings" of the notion, if we have any
> data for that.  
> Since the end of the "exile" is dated to c. 538 BCE
> (the "Edict of  
> Cyrus," per Ezra 1), and since the New Testament
> letters to Timothy  
> were definitely written no earlier than c. 50 CE
> (and probably at  
> least a couple of decades later than that), Kevin is
> merely stating a  
> historical fact to say that "[2 Timothy] was written
> 500+ years after  
> the [Babylonian exile]." In that light, 2 Timothy
> sheds no light on  
> what Kevin is asking about: "pre-exilic Hebrew
> understandings" of the  
> concept of "inspiration." I don't believe that your
> harsh dismissal  
> of his statement is warranted, since all he is
> trying to do is limit  
> the historical scope of his inquiry.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Aug 1, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Sujata wrote:
> >> "It was written 500+
> >> years after the event"
> >
> > Now that is a very scholarly statement, isn't it?
> I
> > think NOT.
> 
> --
> R. Christopher Heard
> Assistant Professor of Religion
> Pepperdine University
> Malibu, California 90263-4352
> http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/cheard
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