Layman

Commentators. No one is ignoring literary conventions here except Robbins. The fact that your cut and pastie includes numbered paragraphs does not mean it's not the prefatory beginning of the voyage.

And you completely ignore the even more important fact that whether it was written by Hanno himself or two of his sailors, it is considered a first person account of an actual voyage from the perspective of some of the participants.

Talk about tortured.

You are using a true account written by participants in the voyage to argue that Acts is not a true account and was not written by a person involved in the voyages.

Until either Robbins or Mack makes a substantive response to his critics, his theory is undefended. A casual reference by Mack and a one or two sentence email post by Robbins does not constitute such a defense.

You do not seem to understand fully what those criticisms are. You continue to ignore many of my points.

There is no strange reluctance on my part. The closest large library does not have his book or his article. If I had access to it I would be happy to read it.

Toto

I have made no such argument. Were I to make that argument, I would use better evidence, but you wanted to confine this to literary conventions.

Which of your points have I ignored? I went through most of the points in your opening posts.

But as I say, I need to put this aside for a while.

Funny. I found a copy. Peter has a copy. If you don't want to buy the book, you are in the same metropolitan area as Fuller Theological Seminary. Have you tried their library?

Layman

While I agree that you have not made much of an argument for this point, it is a conclusion you continually spout off.

You continue to ignore my break downs of the use of the "we-passages" or offer any rationale for the usage as consistent with Robbin's theory.

You continue to ignore that Hanno, whether written by Hanno or two of his sailors, is based on eyewitness sources and is a real piece of history.

There are no time penalties here.

Nothing funny about it. I checked the libraries closest to me and my work and they did not have it. Fuller might well have it, but I don't travel to Pasadena very often.

I have nothing against reading it and would do so if I could conveinently get my hands on one. I'd be most interested in anythying written after 1980.