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  • From: James Spinti <jspinti AT eisenbrauns.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The "Missing Link": Cuneiform Writing of Early HebrewWords
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:39:19 -0600

We're getting a bit off-topic for B-Hebrew, but, Kofoed's book addresses that
very issue, although in the book of Kings:
Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text
by Jens Bruun Kofoed
ISBN: 978-1-57506-094-1

James
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On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Rev. Bryant J. Williams III wrote:

> Dear Jim,
>
> I think that one should take into account that the old Graf-Welhausen
> Theory and the issue of Oral Story-Telling needs to be completely scrapped
> and started over again. So, please don't go with the so-called "missing
> link" idea.
>
> Although it is written for the NT Studies, Richard Bauckham's, Jesus and
> the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, brings out several
> studies that find that eyewitnesses would have kept the stories essentially
> the same even within the community that was now the protector of the
> original stories. Theses eyewitnesses would have been the control over the
> retelling of the stories to prevent inaccurate transmission of the stories;
> and yet, allow for some variation in wording as long as this variation did
> not change the story. Extrapolating from that, it would seem that the
> stories passed down from the Patriarchs would be extremely accurate.
> Byskog, Gerhaddson, etc., should be consulted. A lot of water has passed
> down the river since initial historical-critical theory that has been shown
> to be wrong due to presuppositions that are no longer tenable. Again, I
> point out that Bauckham's book is about the Gospels and the issue of
> Eyewitnesses including memory studies, etc. But, considering that the issue
> of the ANE and the area of Canaan, later Israel (deliberately renamed
> Palestine by the Romans), it would not be too much of a stretch to see that
> the same transmission techniques are still employed.
>
> Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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