At 17.49 27/02/99 -0800, Ken Litwak wrote:
>Ian Hutchinson wrote in part:
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>>Or till people begin to apply stricter historiographical
>>methods?
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>I am still waiting to know, Ianm what your methodological basis is,
>whose well-accepted historiographical principles you follow. I can't
>tell that you've read anyone outside of biblical studies in the area of
>historiography, and in spite of my multiple requests, refuse to ever
>talk about method. All you wan to do is say, here's a fact, as though
>things were that simple. So I'm all for applying stricter
>historiographical methods, but I can't see you doing so because so far
>as I can tell, if you follow any, you won't admit to what they are.
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> Again, let me suggest that it is methodologically unsound to date a
>document by its earliest MS. YOu keep dating biblical texts to the 2nd
>century. Yet, you wont' answer my question. Was Aristotle's Rhetorica
>written in the MIddle Ages, from whence our earliest MS comes? If not,
>then you need to find a more defensible view of texts.
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>Ken Litwak
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