By Charles Halton on Saturday, 29 April 2006 at 8:48 am
It seems that there might be a bit of higher criticism on the brain in the blogosphere. I referred you to Kevin Wilson’s thoughts a few days ago and now another Kevin, Edgecomb that is, offers his view. Edgecomb works from William Hallo’s comparative approach to ancient literature and he states that the traditional documentary hypothesis is all washed up. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions, but I would be interested to see what Kevin Wilson’s response to this is…
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Pingback by Blue Cord » Blog Archive » Compare and Contrast
Made Saturday, 29 of April , 2006 at 10:33 am
[...] On Awilum today, Charles Halton notes that two Kevins, myself and Kevin Edgecome, have been blogging about higher criticism. He notes that Kevin Edgecome is critical of the higher criticism, and wonders how I might respond. So, I thought I would respond. [...]
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Made Sunday, 30 of April , 2006 at 7:23 pm
[...] Kevin Wilson at Blue Cord has raised some interesting and quite valid points regarding my Discovery and Scholarship post, prompted by and added to by Charles Halton at Awilum. (Sorry about the primitive linking here, this “pingback” stuff is too new voodoo for me.) [...]
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Made Tuesday, 2 of May , 2006 at 8:19 pm
[...] Kevin Wilson keeps churning out the great posts by bucking the system(s) and creating a “hybrid theory” of source criticism. It’s not the Documentary Hypothesis and it’s not quite the Supplementary Hypothesis–but it is the best of both in a nice, beautiful package. Check out this link, it’s only a quick snapshot of his views, but it’s a good summary. Kevin has a bright future ahead of him and I can’t wait to see a forthcoming monograph on this topic (hey, I asked him to write a post about it and he obliged, let’s see if I can get a full book length treatment out of him!). [...]