September 04, 2007 11:12AM
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Doug Weller Wrote:
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> How do you define Hebrew?
I don't really. I was interested in your opinion, because you mentioned that you doubted very much that Kitchen's article provides "convincing evidence for Hebrew slaves in Egypt, since I don't think there is convincing evidence for 'Hebrews' at that time".
My main reason for being interested in knowing what constitutes "convincing evidence" is because I have no idea how archaeology is supposedly able to differentiate between 'Hebrews' and other Semites in Egypt at this time in the first place.
Incidentally, thanks to Hermione, I've now read Kitchen's 1981 article, and as I suggested, suspected, and have had confirmed, it makes absolutely
no claims about the Exodus or Hebrew slaves in Egypt whatsoever. Instead, it describes exactly what it 'does' in the title (ie. it provides a description of the personal names of non-Egyptians mentioned on little studied Middle Kingdom stelae in the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro). As I asked previously, what's not to take seriously?
Damian
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My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to settle these plain things. I have ever found your plain things the knottiest of all.
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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'I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts.
- Edward S. Curtis
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'We are coming now rather into the region of guesswork', said Dr Mortimer.
'Say, rather, into the region where we balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation', [replied Holmes].
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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'It never does to be too sure, you know, in these matters. Coincidence killed the professor.'
- "Novel of the Black Seal" by Arthur Machen
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