George: OK, this will be my last response to you on this.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:44 AM, George Athas <[email protected]>wrote: > Karl, not only do I find your chronological reorganisation of Ancient Near > Eastern history beyond reason, It is not my chronological reorganization. All I know is the language and text of Tanakh. However, I have read some historians and archaeologists who make a good case for chronological reorganization, which I find convincing. > but your description of Genesis as 'the only documentation from Canaan for > that era' is most odd (even an early Mosaic date puts it much later than > what you claim for it), I have already given reasons for that, again reasons not mine but learned from others. The internal evidence from Genesis is that Moses had earlier documents at hand when he wrote Genesis, the question is how much editing of those documents did he do when he compiled them into Genesis? > and your selective reading of evidence and arguments from silence is simply > breathtaking. > My whole point is that your arguments are arguments from silence, as you lack documentation to back them up. > > Oh, and thank you for the subtle charge of anti-Semitism, too. Much > appreciated! > That charge is well documented for the founders of a certain teaching widely believed today. But that was in the early 1800s. That’s all that I referenced. If any of the modern day adherents to that belief harbor anti-Semitism, I know nothing about it. Oh, that teaching today is known as the Documentary Hypothesis. > > It's not worth interacting with you anymore on this topic. > If that is your opinion, then that is why I said at the beginning of this response that this is the last one I will make to you on this subject. The only reasons I make this response at all is to clear up some misconceptions you stated. > > > GEORGE ATHAS > Director of Postgraduate Studies, > Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au) > Sydney, Australia > > <http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew> > Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
