Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Hi,


> Where I differ is that I did not come with the presupposition that the
> “materes lexionis” were not used in pre-Exile writings,


Excellent! Commendable method.


> and secondly with
> the recognition that “fire” and its synonyms were used in Biblical Hebrew
> to
> refer to the metal heads of tools, such as hammers, knives and pickaxes.
>
>
Also a stark possibility. I don't have any objections to this.


> >
> > You translate things differently in Siloam ("fire" rather than "man"),
> > so I would
> > like to see the full translation as you read it.  Again, it appears
> > you have your
> > own independent reading from everyone else.
> >
>
> Maybe because I’m like the boy seeing the emperor parading down the street
> naked, and not knowing better, just blurt out the truth.
>
>
Great! I don't think Yitzhak will be able to level with this. He likes to
stand on the shoulders of giants but doesn't bother to check whether they
are really crippled dwarves. I have no doubt he will not be able to object
to your analysis further than observing that no-one else he has read about
supports such a reading (as if this meant anything)

Note to Yitzhak. One of the arts of debating is recognising who you are
debating with. I recognise that you like papers and seem to be making more
progress with you by quoting papers at you that help you understand the data
sparsity problems. Karl and I (the only people really bothering in engaging
with your theory) are only generally impressed by good explanations of
primary data. Quoting papers at us, making observations that no scholars
agree with Karl's reading and refusing to provide data isn't going to do
your debating strategy any favours. I suggest you stop making futile
comments of this nature and get on with presenting more data and your
account of it (translate as 'the account you support' and please don't waste
any more time and bandwidth with knitpicking sessions)

James Christian


> >
> > Yitzhak Sapir
> >
> >
> Karl W, Randolph.
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