From: "Christian M. M. Brady" <cbrady AT tulane.edu>
To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: The daughter of Jeftah died?
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:58:22 -0500
On 6/3/02 3:38 PM, "Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu> wrote:
> If you argue that this describes an histoical event, then
> you must have some theory in mind describing how the
> event happened to be written down and received into
> the biblical corpus.
> What is that theory that you have?
Pick one. Try any one. What about: people told the story and someone thought
it was important enough to write it down and include it in a "Best of the
Judges Story Time" collection.
Cb
cbrady @ tulane.edu
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