From: "Christine Bass" <christinebass AT home.com>
To: "Raymond de Hoop" <rdehoop AT keyaccess.nl>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Written by Women.???
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:47:48 -0500
A clarification is in order.
My post was a satirical response---to the statement that Biblical
scholarship begins with the belief that the scriptures were written by men.
This comes under the heading, in my mind anyway, of "biblical
mythology"----the idea that men conceived and wrote scripture.
As I interpret the scriptures to say, they are inspired by God----and were
written down by men.
Which is a bit of a different take on the subject. No?
See II Samuel 23: 1-2
"The spirit of the Lord spake unto me and his word was in my
tongue."---David
and
II Peter 1:21--
"For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by
the Holy Ghost."
> Your perception that men could not be creative and sensitive is just a
> shortcoming in your education.
Actually, it was an attempt at humor.......playing off the fact that
people have been commenting about being insulted about one thing
or another. I thought I 'd throw another subject into the stew.
This does appear to be a male dominated list.....
However, I'm sure all of you men are sensitive and creative. :-)
>The fact that a woman is the main figure of a
> novel does not imply that the writer is a woman.