Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Jim Stinehart wrote:

> An old scholarly article notes that the ruins of Jazer are called Seir:
        ^^^

The article is old, Jim.  It's not really clear if he is making the
point you want
it to, but suppose it does, so what?  So what if a scholar wrote something in
1911.  How was it received by other scholars?  Did anyone accept it?  If no
one accepted it back in 1911, why should we?  Maybe the author even
reversed his position?  What do modern geographical studies say about Seir?
All this has to be considered.  You can't just pick sentences that scholars
wrote sometime anytime uncritically and join them together to form a web
of inconsistent statements that support your odd positions.

Yitzhak Sapir