What I meant is that after WWI Germany become a beacon of academic
light to which the Professors at fledgling Hebrew University in
Jerusalem looked up for approval and acceptance. Later the center of
gravity of Hebrew studies moved, methinks, elsewhere. I don't think
Prof. Lehmann, or his colleagues, needs any approval, in any shape
and manner, and if he is offended by my (possibly ill chosen) words
he has my sincerest apologies.
As for racism, let the professor know that I have spent four
wonderful, possibly some of the best of my life, years as a research
fellow at the university of Stuttgart, Germany. Both my wife, through
her music, and I, through my work, and both of us through sheer
friendliness, made a great number of wonderful friends there.
Coming to America I had a considerable professional advantage over my
colleagues and even my professors, due to the advanced and intensive
nature of our research in Germany.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On May 8, 2013, at 5:31 AM, Yigal Levin wrote:
Dear Dr. Lehmann,
As you know, posts on B-Hebrew are usually not moderated. This
means, that messages are posted to the list without first being
approved by the moderators, unless the moderators have a specific
reason to adjust a member's settings so that that member's posts
have to be approved before going to the list. Dr. Isaac Fried's
posts are often eccentric and sometimes obtuse, even bordering on
offensive, and his positions on many of the issues discussed on the
list are, to say the least, unconventional. However, we have always
preferred to facilitate free discussion rather than have the kind
of censorship that is practiced on some other lists.
It is also important to remember that the moderators are all
volunteers who also have other things to do, and considering the
fact that they live in widely dispersed tome zones, cannot hope to
"catch" every potentially offensive statement in "real time".
Looking at Dr. Fried's post now, I can certainly understand how
some would find it offensive. I doubt that Dr. Fried meant it to
be, but I call upon Dr. Fried to clarify what he did mean, and on
all members to think and to re-read their posts before clicking
"send".
I very much hope that you, Dr. Lehmann, will be able to accept Dr.
Fried's explanation in the spirit in which it was meant, and that
you will choose to stay on as a valued member of this list.
Kol Tuv,
Yigal Levin
Co-moderator, B-Hebrew
From: [email protected] [mailto:b-hebrew-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of R. Lehmann
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [b-hebrew] IE
When I read 'academic' impudence like this
to sound scientific, and thus gain acceptance. We don't need
Germany's academic approval any more, possibly the reverse.
and more, and no moderator stops such insults, I think it is best
for me to leave this list in due time before next racist taunts
will appear on-list.
As a German academic I don't need any approval of Mr. Fried, last
of all in academic behaviour.
Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann, AcDir
On Tue, 7 May 2013 11:53:04 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote
will not be accepted, on emotional - ideological
grounds, by the Europeans, the same way some people vehemently
reject the idea that man evolved from ape. Will the English submit
to the idea that their queen is speaking pidgin Hebrew?
2. The idea of Proto-Semitic was introduced into "Hebrew Studies" at
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by professors who were educated
in Germany and Austria, where they picked it from the immutable
prevailing belief in Proto-IE. They eagerly adopted it, I believe,
to sound scientific, and thus gain acceptance. We don't need
Germany's academic approval any more, possibly the reverse.
3. Aramaic appears to me to be but bastard Hebrew, and the genetic
relationship between Hebrew and Arabic is a mystery, and so any
search for a common ancestral language is, in my opinion, futile. I
dismiss "Akkadian" and "Ugaritic" as they are but tentative
languages, and of which I know nothing (and I don't think they are
worth the effort to "study".)
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Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann, Academic Director
Research Unit on Ancient Hebrew & Epigraphy
FB 01/ Faculty of Protestant Theology
Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz
D-55099 Mainz
Germany
[email protected]
http://www.hebraistik.uni-mainz.de/eng
11th Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (MICAH) 2013:
http://www.micah.hebraistik.uni-mainz.de/204.php
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