Biblical Hebrew Forum

[kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>]

Yitzhak,
 
When you were listing oddball theories on B-Hebrew, you forgot to mention my 
oddball theory that the letters in certain quotes can be regrouped into new 
words and sentences. (You probably forgot my oddball ideas because I have not 
posted any of them lately.) Maybe that would go under textual criticism. Is 
that considered an oddball theory if there is no manuscript evidence that the 
letters of a certain quote should be divided into words differently? I only 
ask this because I don't think anyone will read or answer this email since 
everyone is just arguing about Rolf's ideas.
 
Personally, I like oddball theories because they are interesting even if they 
are wrong usually. Scholars seem to have a lot of knowledge, but very little 
creativity and imagination. They are great at compiling information, but they 
don't seem to even try to have any new ideas. They only say things that seem 
"scholarly" and "accepted" by every other scholar, and never go out on a limb 
with new and unusual ideas. Maybe I should not have said this, but reading 
the debates about Rolf's ideas makes me feel that at least he is rocking the 
boat a little which makes things more interesting.
 
Also, one person seems to be pushing his religious beliefs a lot and I think 
that is unfair. I don't want to mention his name, but why don't the 
moderators do anything?
 
Kenneth Greifer
USA
 
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