At 01:28 PM 5/19/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Sounds like a cultural thing, Jim.
>The Protestant, who wants to get back to the text itself,
>and the Jew, who wouldn't know how to study the
>text without studying the layers and layers of commentary over it.
>Liz
must be.
best, as always,
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
Quartz Hill School of Theology