Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Peter Kirk wrote:

> > I had no interest in your point in the first place, ... People don't 
> > have to follow every scholarly rabbit trail to be scholars. Part of 
> > scholarship is knowing when not to do so, and when an idea is 
> > unrealistic and bad. Life is short; why waste it eating bad food for 
> > the mind? ...
>
> If you don't have the interest or time to pursue this issue properly, 
> why are you wasting your own time and everyone else's by writing no less 
> than 16 e-mails on this subject? 

HH: Because issues came up that needed to be 
addressed. I did not waste people's time.


If you haven't examined the issues
> properly (I haven't either), you should keep quiet on the matter.


HH: Because I had the time and interest to pursue 
it adequately for my purpose, which was to clarify 
that the man was unreliable.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard