Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Jim:

How many times have you read Tanakh in Hebrew? I mean cover 
to cover. Have you memorized any chapters? There are people 
who may not have academic degrees, but who have studied as 
much as those who have those degrees.

One of the problems with this field is that there are too 
many conclusions that are more philosophically based than 
strictly linguisticly. As a result, people react according 
their philosophic biases.

As for the lazy people, ... 

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim West" <jwest AT highland.net>

> 
> Dave wrote
> 
> >
> >> Look at this forum.  We have folks of every level of knowledge from the
> >> newborn to the lifetime-fluent, and we all talk to each other, share 
> >> ideas
> >> and exchange information and topics.  It really doesn't matter that X 
> >> has a
> >> Ph.D. and Y doesn't, everybody has an equal voice here.
> 
> I am always amazed at the disregard that people have for professionally
> trained biblical scholars.  They are a sort of "whipping boy" for all
> those who imagine that one person's opinion is just as valid as another.
>    You cannot name one other field of professional studies where this
> claim is made so regulary, frequently, or inaccurately.
> 
> No one would imagine going to their medical doctor and saying- "well
> doc, that's just your opinion.  I'm a self taught doctor and i think i
> should write myself a prescription for valium whether you think i should
> or not."  But in biblical studies everyone who has ever skimmed a
> grammar, read one or two books, and owns a bible, thinks that their
> voice carries equal validity as the voice of a person who has invested
> years and years in intense academic study of the field.  It is, if i may
> be blunt, retarded to make such a suggestion.
> 
> The next time someone says that "everyone's opinion is equally valid" i
> hope they go to their lawyer, their doctor, their nurse, or any other
> intensively trained professional and try the same garbage.
> 
> Its sickening to me that people who talk about loving the bible so much
> are so lazy, disinterested, or arrogant that they wont make the effort
> that others have in studying it and yet tell themselves, and others,
> that they know as much as someone else does and they are proud that they
> have no degree in it because that just proves their intelligence.
> 
> Bull *&(%
> 
> --
> Jim West, ThD
> 
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> 
> Non ergo fidem confirmare potest ulla creatura -- Huldrych Zwingli

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