Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

...Often when I believe I am responding directly to a point of yours you respond that in some way I was misreading you. I know I do that sometimes, but rarely consistently with one person. I think it better that you post without any interaction from me. If I post it may be to respond to what I thin...

The (almost) unique argument of Gmirkin is that these did not arise at any time prior to, or by any cultural route other than direct reading of Greek literature in the 3rd Century BCE . That is hardly the "unique (almost)" contribution of Gmirkin's works. The extent of the parallels raise...

About the phrase above, "...Gmirkin the post-minimalist...." Though I agree a great deal (in posts here) with austendw (sometime "Diachronist"?), fwiw, R. E. Gmirkin wrote: "....I would identify my own position as post-Maximalist." https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/artic...

Are you suggesting that there was Greek influence in the Pentateuch and that it predates the Hellenistic era? You would not be alone. Some would argue the influence was in the reverse direction. Where does the "hard evidence", the "concrete" evidence, mostly point? [/quote[]Hard...

The (almost) unique argument of Gmirkin is that these did not arise at any time prior to, or by any cultural route other than direct reading of Greek literature in the 3rd Century BCE . That is hardly the "unique (almost)" contribution of Gmirkin's works. The extent of the parallels raise...

I would be very surprised if you could identify for me a single book or article by Lemche or Davies or Thompson or Whitelam that "ends up with broad generalizations" and any "demonization" of opponents or any "failure to engage with the actual issues". Have you read an...

Just once more on that imaginary "chasm" that is now surfacing here as a criticism of G's "outlandishly implausible" "understanding" of the relevant ancient world, ..... of course there was "Greek influence" of some kind in the Syrian region prior to the Hell...

Gmirkin's understanding of the ancient world, on the contrary, seems to view Eastern Mediterranean cultural "consanguinity" as outlandishly implausible. His approach to the material actually presupposes a sort of cultural chasm between Greece and the Levant (East is East, and West is West...

I’ve been banging on about diachronic approaches to the biblical text and many people think that I must mean the Documentary Hypothesis. But diachronic approaches don't have an inherent connection to that 19th Century theory, and particularly not to its absolute chronological scheme. In the traditio...

Your quote from Whiston doesn't actually help the argument What or whose argument are you referring to? because, ironically, it too is an inaccurate translation - and "ancient" isn't in there either. This remark seems to reflect an inadequate understanding of how ancient texts are transla...