To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Balaam's Kittim Oracle - revisted
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:16:56 +0200
>Why can't we in this group have the professional honesty to just at
>times say, "We don't really know what this means or refers to",
>instead of dragging in all types of personal speculation? Exegetical
>speculation can very easily develop into tohu webohu.
I'm happy to admit that I really don't know what Num 24:24
means -- that's why I attempted to start a thread on it -- but
I'm not happy to see people making rude side comments
such as the one above.