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Re: orion-list Scriptorium & Eisenman
David Suter:
Thank you for the clarifications on behalf of Dr. Kraft.
I understand much better now. Thank you for helping out
with my inaccurate impression of what he was emphasizing.
George Brooks
Tampa, FL
George.X.Brooks@JUNO.com
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:35:32 -0800 "Suter, David" <dsuter@stmartin.edu>
writes:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Brooks
> To: orion@mscc.huji.ac.il
> Sent: 12/6/99 8:47 PM
> Subject: Re: orion-list Scriptorium & Eisenman
>
> Dr. Robert Kraft:
>
> Back in October you wrote:
>
> > Sorry, Jim, you have missed my point. I'm quite familiar with
> > Eisenman's views, but I don't think he has written on the
> BIBLICAL
> TEXT in the DSS, > which is what the Scriptorium conference is all
> about. If he has made > contributions to TEXTUAL study (i.e.
> Biblical
> Text), I'd like to know about them. He has tended to be concerned
> more with historical > reconstruction and the interpretation of the
> various (mostly non-biblical) fragments, not with TEXTUAL work
> as such. Or am I missing something?
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
>
> Dr. Kraft, have you read Robert Eisenman's THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND
> THE FIRST CHRISTIANS ? This book seems to be PACKED FULL of New
> Testament analysis. But perhaps I am not completely familiar with
> what
> you mean with TEXTUAL WORK or ANALYSIS. I'd be interested in your
> views on this particular book. As I've said before, I do not not
> concur
> with Eisenman's views on the TIMING of the WICKED PRIEST, but it
> is absolutely fascinating how much Eisenman can "pick out" of
> New Testament text that I believe IS related the the Dead Sea
> Scroll texts that the casual reader wouldn't notice.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> George,
>
> You've missed Bob Kraft's point again. The Biblical text in this
> case means
> the Hebrew Scriptures (Tanakh), not the New Testament, and the
> conference
> deals with "text criticism," the study of the transmission of the
> text of
> the Hebrew Bible on the basis of the manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible
> found
> at Qumran and their relationship to other types of evidence for the
> transmision of the text of the Hebrew Bible like the MT and the
> OG/LXX.
> Eisenman is engaged in historical reconstruction, not text
> criticism, based
> on an entirely different body of material.
>
> David Suter
> Saint Martin's College
> For private reply, e-mail to "Suter, David" <dsuter@stmartin.edu>
For private reply, e-mail to George Brooks <george.x.brooks@juno.com>
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