Hi Ken,
Idiosyncracy is not an argument pro or against anything; Newton,
Galilei, Chomsky, Sokrates, Jesus, Copernicus, I guess Einstein too,
Lachmann (leading to the 'discovery' of "Q") and quite a lot of
others, had, strictly speaking, idiosyncratic ideas but did cause a
paradigm shift or breakthrough. The Jerusalem hypothesis is very
convincing. Golb put an entire list of strong arguments in his book.
The number of scholars that support a certain theory, too, as they
wanted me to remember well in philosophy class, doesn't mean anything
either. The first scholar that suggested microbes exist was laughed at
by his fellow doctors.
2005/12/15, Ken Penner <ken.penner AT acadiau.ca>:
Anyone reading _Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls_ should be aware that Golb's views are highly idiosyncratic and not convincing to most
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