Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:
You still didn’t answer my question: “Which hypothesis? The one you just
made up here, or the one originally posited in this forum?”

I will go to your next point when you answer this one.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:40 AM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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