Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com>]

Shalom Karl and Lloyd;

I wanted to make it clear that I have no issue with discussing the topics
that Lloyd is discussing, it is the method in which he does such that seems
as if he preaching. I am more than willing to discuss anything under the
sun, on a personal level, I just do not see what Lloyd is doing as
appropriate for this particular list.

Yo*h*anan bin-Dawidh

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:50 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Lloyd:
> As is stated on the front page of this forum, and as George Athas
> reiterated, this forum is concerning Biblical Hebrew language and
> literature. It is based on the scholarly principles of evidence and logic.
>
> There are those on this list who say that theory apart from evidence, is
> the
> same as preaching a religious belief. For evidence, they will accept a
> large, datable body of literature in the Biblical Hebrew language so we can
> compare the stylistic development of the language and literature, and/or
> manuscript evidence showing earlier versions of the texts in question.
> Nothing less. Unfortunately, neither exist. Therefore any theory concerning
> the history of the Tanakh prior to the DSS is merely a statement of belief.
> To push any one of those beliefs is proselytism and has been deemed off
> topic for this list.
>
> Questions in Pentateuchal studies that postulate a J, E, P or any other
> such
> source hypothesis, because they have no evidence, are pushing beliefs.
> Those
> are the little questions that are irrelevant.
>
> But there is still plenty to discuss: vocabulary, grammar, linguistic
> conventions, euphemisms, a whole slew of questions. You are quite welcome
> to
> join in on those discussions.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:42 PM, LM Barre <l_barre AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I simply wished to say that my particular brand of scholarship is of 1986
> > vintage, at which time I received my doctorate.  We were asking the big
> > questions.  Pentateuchal studies was divided into studies of J, E and P.
>  We
> > were also working on the Deuteronomistic Historian and the Deuteronomic
> > school.  In fact, there was intense interests in all the biblical
> > literature--wisdom literature, hymnic literature, post-exilic literature.
> > Methodology was discussed--form criticism, tradition history, source
> > criticism, rhetorical criticism and so on.  In this sense, then, I am a
> > traditionalist who is out of step with what largely goes on here at
> > b-Hebrew.  I do not understand what the task is here.  Can someone speak
> to
> > what is going on here?  It eludes me.
> >
> >
> > Lloyd Barré
> > http://freewebs.com/lmbarre
> >
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