Subject: RE: Autographs, MSS and REAL Historiography Re: Methods in biblical scholarship
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:24:02 -0500
At 11:49 PM 12/28/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>> > [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.
> [Niels Peter Lemche]
> This is hardly the relevant criterium here. Did Herodotus not have a
>clear purpose?