I am not a scholar, and I have not understood anything in the argument about Rolf's dissertation or whatever the discussion has been about. I am just curious about how scholars debate normally. Is the debate that you've been doing on B-Hebrew the normal way that scholars discuss controversial subjects or is this somehow different? Also, when someone has a controversial opinion like Rolf, don't scholars analyze the ideas right away because it sounds like his ideas have been around for a while and no one has analyzed them. Maybe I did not understand the discussion, but it sounds like this to me.Kenneth, it is not true that "no one has analyzed them". On this list several us including myself have repeatedly analysed and criticised Rolf's views for at least ten years. But he seems to have taken on board very few of these criticisms and continues to act as if no one has ever criticised him before, or as if the people who criticise him are nobodies who can be ignored.
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