tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613525030683671127.post2793019210156872031..comments2023-10-12T14:09:33.965-07:00Comments on The Biblia Hebraica Blog: Israelite Origins and Biblical InerrancyDouglas Mangumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15267532075493569019noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613525030683671127.post-32722279147259166342009-04-22T07:19:00.000-07:002009-04-22T07:19:00.000-07:00Thanks, John. I was commenting at your post, appar...Thanks, John. I was commenting at your post, apparently while you were here. What you've said here I think clarifies what I was trying to point out in the post - not that the text is full of errors but that many of the texts that some people try so hard to prove as historical are also the ones "least amenable to historicization."Douglas Mangumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267532075493569019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613525030683671127.post-20131343743314500802009-04-22T07:13:00.000-07:002009-04-22T07:13:00.000-07:00Hi Doug,
I'm commenting on James McGrath's post o...Hi Doug,<br /><br />I'm commenting on James McGrath's post on my blog. <br /><br />As for your question about Taanach, my mentor in archaeology, Albert Glock, as well as my text professor, Frank Crusemann, would probably have said: start elsewhere, with the poem in Judges 5. Start elsewhere, that is, if one is interested in making a comparison between Israel's own account of its ethnogenesis, and archaeological and other data.<br /><br />Of course, it's a mistake to think that even that old poem is a sufficient window into what happened in Israel before the establishment of the monarchy. But it's the best textual starting point we have. Judges 1 comes next, with texts like Joshua 1-12 being among those least amenable to historicization.John Hobbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17011346264727684917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3613525030683671127.post-55104806756748865862009-04-22T04:00:00.000-07:002009-04-22T04:00:00.000-07:00I sure had some fun dropping one or two silly comm...I sure had some fun dropping one or two silly comments on the thread at James' blog. Perhaps being absurd in such a "serious" debate was not a good idea. Still, it made me smile to myself.phil_stylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04605470284153454825noreply@blogger.com