Kenneth, Thank you for the link.
Everyone: please remember that while Kenneth's linguistic analysis of various passages is a perfectly legitimate subject for discussion on this list, the ideology (belief? lack of?) behind that analysis is not. If anyone wants to argue with Kenneth, please do it somewhere else. Thank you, Yigal Levin Co-moderator, B-hebrew -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kenneth greifer Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [b-hebrew] amateur textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible Experts are people who know everything that is known about a subject, but when it comes to what is not known, they are not really experts anymore. They are just more likely to be able to figure out the unknown information than amateurs. I think thousands of years ago many quotes of the Hebrew Bible were forgotten and misunderstood. When the scribes were writing out the Bible, they did not understand some quotes and they had to guess the meanings. I think they made many mistakes that were accepted over time until there were no manuscripts with the correct original version. Some people say that there are mistakes in the Hebrew Bible, but if you check the ancient manuscripts, you can find the correct version of everything somewhere. I think that is not true. I think mistakes mistakes might have been completely accepted as correct by people thousands of years ago. I have heard some scholars and scholarly types say that they only believe what the "data" in the Hebrew Bible shows, but the Hebrew Bible was passed down by people, so human nature has to be considered. The "data" in the Hebrew Bible could be corrupted and almost useless in some quotes. So as an ignorant and arrogant amateur, I have done my own "textual criticism" of the Hebrew Bible that you can see at my site. You can read my "book" called "Messianic Mistakes and Misunderstandings: Why Judaism and Christianity are both wrong about the most controversial quotes in the Hebrew Bible." http://www.messianicmistakes.com/ I suppose you will ignore my ideas as stupid guesses, but that is OK with me. Kenneth Greifer What I am saying is that _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
