Cc: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Autographs, MSS and REAL Historiography Re: Methods in bib lical scholarship
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:49:18 +0100
> > [Niels Peter Lemche] I understand your point, but I asked you to
> >read the theory before you read the examples. Thucydides and Herodotus
> were
> >considered as two very different cases of histoery writing in Antiquity.
> >They were well aware of the difference. It is not something later
> >rationalization created.
>
> Maybe, but there are clear purposes in his writting, just as there were to
> Josephus.
>
> moshe shulman mshulman AT NOSPAMix.netcom.com 718-436-7705
>
[Niels Peter Lemche]
This is hardly the relevant criterium here. Did Herodotus not have a
clear purpose?
NPL
RE: Autographs, MSS and REAL Historiography Re: Methods in bib lical scholarship,
Niels Peter Lemche, 12/28/1999