Biblical Hebrew Forum

[belaga AT math.u-strasbg.fr]

Quoting Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Mr. Belaga wrote:
>
> > This rather typical exchange raises the question: to what degree
> > should we take care of what the Biblical sources and related Jewish
> > and Christian commentaries of the distant past speak about.
> >
> > Here, the camps of believers and skeptics look at each other with disdain.
>
> I do not look upon anyone with disdain, and I resent your implication that
> I do not treat the ancient sources with great care.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir

Quite to the contrary, I just hoped to complement you on what you were  
saying ... I was speaking about the general situation, with the words  
"believers" not related to the religion but to the people taking the  
Scripture as a reliable source. Of course "reliable" is not exactly  
what people mean in the current cultural, strongly formalized, with a  
modern legalistic background sense -- here come "skeptics".

Sorry for this misunderstanding. The subject is too touchy...

Dr. Edward G. Belaga
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