How sound is any Egyptologist? Many I'm sure will think even Donald B.
Redford is off his nut when he writes such things as "Biblical historical
scholarship has of late been bedeviled by the acceptance, tacitly or
explicitly, of a number of arbitrary preconceptions that fail to be honestly
acknowledged, and by a tedious tendency to rationalize the conservative
views learned at the feet of priest, preacher, or rabbi as a philosophy of
history. Under the first one might cite the commonly accepted view that
ancient Israel perceived history as god's judgment on mankind leading
inexorably to universal salvation through god's guidance of Israel. Such a
view obviously goes hand in hand with a feeling that ancient Israel was
unique, in particular, in its awareness of history and history writing: none
of the great river-valley civilizations of Egypt or Mesopotamia really
produced works of 'history'; only Israel did, and of course Greece (with a
hasty nod in the direction of a most prestigious discipline)." p.261 EGYPT,
CANAAN, AND ISRAEL IN ANCIENT TIMES.
    Redford is a Canadian so he is immune to prosecution under the "Patriot"
Act for such blasphemy.
    Is everyone still getting their messages from the EP list?

Charles

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>From: "Robert E. Kibler" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Love Poems of Ancient Egypt
>Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2003, 1:48 PM
>

> Great. Thanks. Do you have any take on how sound an Egyptologist Boris
> is/was?> Robert:
>>
>> I meant to add this to my last.
>>
>> Alternative translations for many of these poems along with some
>> amplifying information can be found in "Ancient Egyptian Poetry and
>> Prose" by Adolf Erman beginning on page 242.
>>
>> Rick Seddon
>
>
>       I never submitted the whole system of my
>       opinions to the creed of any party of men
>       whatever...where I was capable of thinking
>       for myself. Such an addiction is the last
>       degredation of a free and moral agent. If I
>       could not go to heaven but with a party, I
>       would not go there at all.
>             Thomas Jefferson, from Paris, 1789
>
> Robert E. Kibler, PhD
> English and Humanities
> Director, Northern Plains Writing Project
> Minot State University
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