Yes, I was talking to you in my other post. When I study the Bible in ancient thought, I have a yellow pencil on or near the desk because it was the first teaching I heard from Brenner's about his point of view. I look at it and say - This is a scriber that the scribe uses to scribe the letters. When we are in our local discussion, if we get away from the concrete meanings, I have the pencil. (Although biting cheese to determine function and dysfunction would be tastier.)
As I understand it, your "facts" are the desire for what I call the footnotes - by what authority is a statement made or by what discovery(s)was made that changes the accepted "fact on the ground" which moves your statement/opinion/conjecture to authority level. I have heard Jeff Brenner speak many times and am comfortable with his process and evidence but have no authority myself to validate it. While others on the forum might be closer to Brenner and could answer with authority, I humbly concede it would be conjecture and opinion on my part to explain it. I think that you probably need to contact him for the information you seek. At the bottom of his About page, http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/1_about.html, are some contact points. You are doing well on the forum. Forums are full of opinions - we all become armchair professors. Perhaps it is payback for the times we had to remain silent to get the "A" - okay that is probably just me. (I am grinning at my confession.) The key is to explain yourself, at least at first, because we don't know you and probably have different ideas as to what a "fact" is or is not. For example, I personally try to never confuse "fact" for "truth". I find that keeping them separate creates the possibility of discovery and, thus, drawing closer to that elusive absolute truth. By knowing what you seek, if I see you ask a question again, I will know what to answer or leave alone because I now know more about your point of view. Good grief, I hope something in this verbose post helped. Dee
