Re: Responses


Subject: Re: Responses
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 10:09:26 EDT


Robbie --

RE: your first message, yes, I think our debate is happening because there
isn't a clear definition of canonicity or "fixity" on the table, and I'm
very much beginning to suspect we're looking at the same middle from
opposite sides :).

We both agree there was a list, so the question is whether or not the
books' content was fixed by the first century AD. I think this brings us
back to the DSS. From what I understand, the manuscripts of the books the
Qumran community had back then (esp. the complete books, like Isaiah and
Deuteronomy) weren't all that different from the Masoretic texts (of course
excepting the vowel points) that came into being almost 1000 years later --
wouldn't this testify to relatively fixed text? It seems like when this
was brought up before you agreed, although you also wanted to emphasize
that the Qumran community had a whole lot of texts besides what we
recognize today as the OT or Hebrew Scriptures.

Ultimately, of course, there is evidence pointing both ways and all we can
do is guess. But again, if you're arguing a "there wasn't" thesis, the
existence of any evidence at all works against it. I think think there is
some evidence.

RE: your second post, I think you need to look at the passage in which
Jesus is reading in the synagogue. I don't have a Bible with me, so I'll
try to look it up later tonight.

Jim


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