We're getting a bit off-topic for B-Hebrew, but, Kofoed's book addresses that very issue, although in the book of Kings: Text and History: Historiography and the Study of the Biblical Text by Jens Bruun Kofoed ISBN: 978-1-57506-094-1
James ________________________________ James Spinti E-mail marketing, Book Sales Division Eisenbrauns, Good books for more than 35 years Specializing in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies jspinti at eisenbrauns dot com Web: http://www.eisenbrauns.com Phone: 260-445-3118 Fax: 574-269-6788 On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Rev. Bryant J. Williams III wrote: > Dear Jim, > > I think that one should take into account that the old Graf-Welhausen Theory > and the issue of Oral Story-Telling needs to be completely scrapped and > started over again. So, please don't go with the so-called "missing link" > idea. > > Although it is written for the NT Studies, Richard Bauckham's, Jesus and the > Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, brings out several studies > that find that eyewitnesses would have kept the stories essentially the same > even within the community that was now the protector of the original stories. > Theses eyewitnesses would have been the control over the retelling of the > stories to prevent inaccurate transmission of the stories; and yet, allow for > some variation in wording as long as this variation did not change the story. > Extrapolating from that, it would seem that the stories passed down from the > Patriarchs would be extremely accurate. Byskog, Gerhaddson, etc., should be > consulted. A lot of water has passed down the river since initial > historical-critical theory that has been shown to be wrong due to > presuppositions that are no longer tenable. Again, I point out that > Bauckham's book is about the Gospels and the issue of Eyewitnesses including > memory studies, et c. But, considering that the issue of the ANE and the area of Canaan, later Israel (deliberately renamed Palestine by the Romans), it would not be too much of a stretch to see that the same transmission techniques are still employed. > > Rev. Bryant J. Williams III > _______________________________________________ > 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
