Re: [Megillot] Davies response (was SV: osey hattora)

[RUSSELLGMIRKIN]

Dear Philip,   You write: This could be a protracted debate. I'll wait for your article. But I think you need a book. A lot of close and careful exegesis is needed to reach your conclusions (as mine). Fair enough.   By the way, off topic, my forthcoming book, _Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus:  Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch_ (allegedly at the printers) features a very nice quote from your _In Search of 'Ancient Israel'_ on circular reasoning in the Documentary Hypothesis.  IMO yours was the definitive common sense statement on the alleged discovery of a Deuteronomistic MSS under Josiah.   Best regards, Russell Gmirkin

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Dear Philip,   You write: This could be a protracted debate. I'll wait for your article. But I think you need a book. A lot of close and careful exegesis is needed to reach your conclusions (as mine). Fair enough.   By the way, off topic, my forthcoming book, _Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus:  Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch_ (allegedly at the printers) features a very nice quote from your _In Search of 'Ancient Israel'_ on circular reasoning in the Documentary Hypothesis.  IMO yours was the definitive common sense statement on the alleged discovery of a Deuteronomistic MSS under Josiah.   Best regards, Russell Gmirkin

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