Peter Kirk wrote:-It is indeed a great achievement to complete a PhD and I repeat my congratulations to Rolf for achieving this. I hope I have given to Rolf the personal respect due to him.
I don't see why possession of a PhD entitles someone to
protection from discussion on this list. Maybe if they were really a
well known scholar, published in a recognised (not more or less
self-published) book, they would deserve some extra respect.
Perhaps you don't understand what's involved in getting a Ph.D.,
although I suspect from past postings you do. Let me outline the
process which applies here.
... Thus its not unreasonable to find ``many'' scholars whoOK, but in this case no one should claim that their personal view is the consensus unless there really is a majority, and in my understanding it needs to be a large majority. This applies not only to the documentary hypothesis (on which I would hold that there is no consensus) but also to Rolf's view of the Hebrew verbal system, which certainly cannot be described as the consensus.
do not accept the documentary hypothesis and for them to be
outside the consensus view. A consensus view is simply a
majority opinion.
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