Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

You just did it again. Is there an art to this sidestepping technique  
you have mastered so gracefully.

You hypothesised something on the lines of the TLDTHs being formulas  
of title and author. You later revised it said that author is not  
always necessary.

Later you made the claim that final account in Genesis was a story  
about Joseph with no further significance and so had nothing to do  
with the lineage of Jacob such that the understanding 'History of  
Jacob' couldn't be a title for the last section of Genesis.

So, I repeat the question 'how do you handle Genesis 38 in your theory  
that this is just a story about Joseph with no further significance'?

I hope that this time I will receive an answer. But I have no doubt  
that you will sidestep this entirely and treat it as irrelevant. I  
have started to notice a pattern in what you consider to irrelevant:  
absolutely anything that presents a problem for you theory!

James Christian




Quoting K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>:

> James:
> You didn’t answer my second question, to wit: “Which hypothesis? The one you
> just made up here, or the one originally posited in this forum?”
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:23 AM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Apologies. When you talked about how it starts and ends with Joseph I
> > though you were insinuating he was the author. Anyway, that wasn't the
> > point.
> >
> > As per your style throughout the entirety of this discussion you have
> > sidestepped the real issue that was being raised:
> >
> > How do you deal with Genesis 38 without commenting briefly on something
> > irrelevant and sidestepping what really matters?
> >
> > James Christian
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