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Hydarnes · 12-06-2004, 06:13 AM

Gullwind,

I meant to type out 1446.b.c. I apologize for the typotic error, i was quoting a magazine.

I'm trying to edit my post but the option doesn't seem available.

Celsus,

Quote:

Brian,
I really suggest you stop wasting your time. Come back to Ebla where unsupported assertions get binned immediately.

Joel

If you don't want unsupported assertions, then I'm afraid Brian doesn't qualify for your forum either.

Need proof? Just look at statements like this:

Quote:

I want to try an experiment out here.

Everything in that quote you posted is absolute rubbish.

Tell -el Maskhouta is not biblical Succoth, the Egyptians did not launch any campaigns from biblical Succoth, and there are abundant amounts of evidence for Egyptian military building, barracks, forts, and many other structures of the 18th and ninteenth dynasties, and no Egyptian records testify to their existence.

There you go, everything in your quote has been proven incorrect, utterly destroyed by my superior evidence. If you don't admit that I have demolished the claims of that quote it is only because you believe in God and to admit that I have made a mockery of the claims in the quote would mean that you have to admit that there is no God, and Gene Scott would be wrong about something.

My arguments against you quote are watertight, you must tell Gene to buy a lot of suntan lotion.

Brian.

gregor · 12-06-2004, 06:26 AM

An open question for Celsus and others - is it worth purchasing both Kitchens and Finkelstein and reading them together? Are these the best books for those who are not neophytes on the general issues of OT authorship, but who haven't followed archeology on the topic?

Celsus · 12-06-2004, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by gregor

An open question for Celsus and others - is it worth purchasing both Kitchens and Finkelstein and reading them together? Are these the best books for those who are not neophytes on the general issues of OT authorship, but who haven't followed archeology on the topic?

I wouldn't recommend Kitchen, as he's completely ignored by those involved in Syro-Palestinian archaeology. It might be better to compare Dever (Who were the early Israelites and where did they come from?) and Finkelstein, but pay no attention to Dever's rhetorical bluster against his straw men minimalists.

Joel

Jack the Bodiless · 12-06-2004, 07:54 AM

Hydarnes:

You appear to have overlooked Brian's "I want to try an experiment out here".

Celsus · 12-06-2004, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Jack the Bodiless

Hydarnes:

You appear to have overlooked Brian's "I want to try an experiment out here".

More likely he doesn't recognise irony.

Joel

Hydarnes · 12-06-2004, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Jack the Bodiless

Hydarnes:

You appear to have overlooked Brian's "I want to try an experiment out here".

I didn't. And since you're so willing to come to his defense, you might want to explain to me what the purpose of his experiment was other than making an assertion that he cannot meet with support.

If indeed his statement was made in jest, it is of rather poor caliber.

Jack the Bodiless · 12-06-2004, 08:37 AM

He supported his assertions at least as thoroughly as WILLOWTREE (whom he was addressing at the time) had done.

Hydarnes · 12-06-2004, 08:43 AM

Wrong. Willowtree provided sources for his stance, Brian did not.

Please don't tell me you're that blinded by your own prejudice.

Jack the Bodiless · 12-06-2004, 08:57 AM

"Gene Scott thinks so too" is hardly proof that the Exodus actually happened!

Where is the EVIDENCE that the Exodus actually happened?

Hydarnes · 12-06-2004, 09:08 AM

We're not talking about if the Exodus happened or not. Where have you been? This has to do with WHEN it happened.

If you want to discuss the evidence for the actual event, we could do that too.

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12-06-2004, 06:26 AM	#72
gregor Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 932	An open question for Celsus and others - is it worth purchasing both Kitchens and Finkelstein and reading them together? Are these the best books for those who are not neophytes on the general issues of OT authorship, but who haven't followed archeology on the topic?

12-06-2004, 07:54 AM	#74
Jack the Bodiless Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: UK Posts: 5,815	Hydarnes: You appear to have overlooked Brian's "I want to try an experiment out here".

12-06-2004, 08:37 AM	#77
Jack the Bodiless Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: UK Posts: 5,815	He supported his assertions at least as thoroughly as WILLOWTREE (whom he was addressing at the time) had done.

12-06-2004, 08:43 AM	#78
Hydarnes Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 79	Wrong. Willowtree provided sources for his stance, Brian did not. Please don't tell me you're that blinded by your own prejudice.

12-06-2004, 08:57 AM	#79
Jack the Bodiless Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: UK Posts: 5,815	"Gene Scott thinks so too" is hardly proof that the Exodus actually happened! Where is the EVIDENCE that the Exodus actually happened?

12-06-2004, 09:08 AM	#80
Hydarnes Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 79	We're not talking about if the Exodus happened or not. Where have you been? This has to do with WHEN it happened. If you want to discuss the evidence for the actual event, we could do that too.

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