To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Minimal-Maximal
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:07:48 +0100
At 17.05 14/11/99 -0800, barre AT access1.com wrote:
>Friends,
>
>Do you find the minimalist-maximalist controversy to be jejune? For a
>different approach (phenomenological), see:
Let's leave these vacuous terms alone and stick to the process of
historical reconstruction. Phenomonology is dependent on historical
reconstruction to say what the phenomena were that one want to study.
>History is the study of past consciousness.
This may be -- partially --, but without any criteria to order the
information in a historical space and give value and priority to it there
can be no notion of past for the above definition.