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  • From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>, <JimStinehart AT aol.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] TD(L
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:45:54 -0500



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From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:33 PM
To: <JimStinehart AT aol.com>
Cc: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] TD(L


Either the Bible is accurate history, and much of secular history not worth
the paper it is written on, as some of us believe, or the Bible is
ahistorical legend and secular history is accurate, as others of us believe.
This is simple logic applied to standard linguistics.


There is a middle ground between these two choices, Karl. The two choices rise from modern historical standards and neglects that ancient authors did not follow those rules. Biblical authors were not relating history and what actually happened but what that happening MEANT. It was standard praxis to ornament and exaggerate to relay the importance of an event that would otherwise be ignored. It was also standard to create a fiction surrounding an event if that fiction relayed what the author saw as a "greater" truth. This is the basis of midrash and theologoumenon. At this point, however, I may be getting dangerously close to being off topic and will leave discussions of what is historical and what is not for another list.

Best regards,

Jack

Jack Kilmon
San Antonio, TX




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