To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Written by Women.???
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:11:23 -0700
Colleagues,
I inadvertently sent this to Raymond's personal address rather than to here. This should correct the error.
> You're fond of arguments from silence, aren't you? There's more to
> the Deborah story than the song, in case you didn't know. If all
> you can come up with are arguments from silence, then perhaps
> you need to learn the expression "absence of evidence is not
> evidence of absence." Considering the social/governmental
> position that we are told Deborah was in, it's reasonable to
> conclude that there were at least some instances when she had to
> write. But apparently, arguments from silence are the best you
> can muster, so I see no reason to continue this conversation.
>
>>>
>>> Raymond,
>>> Where did I mention the song? Please read what I actually wrote.
>>>
>>>> We also have a female leader in Judges, to name just one more.
>>
>>
>>
>> Well Dave. I am not supprised by your reaction, you must have some twenty
>> phrases of this kind as a standard format in your e-mail program. You even
>> use them to deny the implication of your words in case this is obvious to
>> everyone.
>>
>> But, I did misunderstand you? Please clarify which female leader you are
>> referring to, and what the implication is of this reference to a female
>> leader in a discussion on women writing if it is not Deborah and if it is
>> not the song? I just know of one female leader in Judges and I do not know
>> of the word "write" (ktb / spr) in connection to her.
>>
>> Raymond
>>
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated." C. S. Lewis