Well said, George! Maybe then - and only then - I might come back to this list as an *active* participant not wasting my time in reading fancies of self-appointed experts who only try to re-invent the wheel.
Best regards, Reinhard Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann Akademischer Direktor Forschungsstelle für Althebräische Sprache und Epigraphik Fachbereich 01: Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz D-55099 Mainz Germany > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 00:12:39 +0000 > From: George Athas <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ezek 3:26 > To: b-hebrew <[email protected]>, K Randolph > <[email protected]> > Cc: Jerry Shepherd <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <ce1fe1a5.149f9%[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > No Karl, Jerry is not a 'perfect medievalist'. The 'ad fontes' ('to the > sources') motto of the Reformers did not mean to pass over or ignore all > commentators, or to consult them second. On the contrary, if you read the > work of the Reformers you will see just how indebted they were to previous > commentators, especially the Church Fathers. They studied the sources in > conversation with the contributions of others. Jerry is doing exactly what > the Reformers were doing. He is engaging in a conversation over the meaning > of the sources, acknowledging previous contributions with appropriate credit > and critiquing them where he deems it fitting. He refuses to do his > scholarship in bleak isolation with the sources only, as though he needs to > 'invent the wheel' on his own and then maybe see what other 'wheels' people > came up with. He is, rather, doing the wise thing of listening to others > before he speaks?a wholly appropriate way of dealing with the sources. It's > called scholarship. > > I can't see where Jerry has committed a logical fallacy, but I can see where > you wilfully choose to sideline the contributions of others in order to trump > up your own opinion formed largely in isolation. Rather than misperceive > Jerry's approach and clang publicly over it, I suggest your limited time > would be better spent going to the commentators in order to glean some of the > wisdom that might be on offer. This does not mean surrendering your faculties > to them. It just means joining the scholarly conversation. If that's not > something you see as valuable, then I question your need to be on this forum, > where we are interested in constructive conversation with valued > contributions. Perhaps you should do as I have suggested many times to Jim > Stinehart, namely move your views to a blog where you can simply air them > without having to engage in real conversation. > > > GEORGE ATHAS > Dean of Research, > Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au) > Sydney, Australia >
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