Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Sarah J. Blake" <sarah AT growingstrong.org>]

A few additional observations:

<<
the bottom historical line for B-Greek is the time of Jesus, but there
is no bottom historical line for B-Hebrew, and even most simple
linguistic inquiries about it lead us sometimes to reflect on
questions which are certainly not linguistic.
> >

This is relatively correct--B-Greek also includes discussions of 
extra-biblical texts, Septuagint Greek, etc. However, these also have a 
generally workable time period. The major difference is that B-Greek 
moderators have definitions regarding the types of posts that are not 
permitted.
I suspect they would also take some sort of action if there were repeated 
infractions of those guidelines.

What has been harmful to the atmosphere on this list, imho, are posts which 
seem to poke fun at various methods of scholarship and insinuate that one 
person's method is the only way to do scholarship. It should be obvious that 
we will encounter a wide variety of perspectives on this list. But what is 
the consequence for baiting someone or for speaking in a completely 
disrespectful way regarding someone else's point of view? What I would not 
like to see happen is the rest of the group stop posting because they don't 
feel comfortable. We all lose out in that scenario.

Sarah J. Blake
Personal email: sjblake AT growingstrong.org
http://www.growingstrong.org 


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