Re: A profound disturbance found in Yak butter.

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From: <glennmorton@entouch.net>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: A profound disturbance found in Yak butter.

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>
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> Hi George,
>
> Before I comment on your note below, I remember at the ASA meeting last
> year you
> commenting upon my dietary preferences. As a going away gift, a deputy
> foreign
> minister and his wife here took me to a North Korean restaurant, staffed
> by North
> Koreans. We had dog. it was good. It was a very memorable evening.
>
>
>>>>>On Tue May 30 19:03 , "George Murphy" sent:
> ----- Original Message -----
> Of course simply assuming something is inadequate. In the present case
> there
> is more to go on. We can observe:
>
> 1) "Sun" and "Moon" shmsh and yrch, are also names of pagan deities of
> the ANE.
> These names are not used in Gen.1. Sun & moon are simply "big light" and
> "little
> light."<<<<<
>
> I actually find this argument for a theological polemic a bit weak. If
> shmsh and
> yrch are both deity names, wouldn't it be more effective to have those
> names
> created in the middle of the week? I mean, wouldn't that be more directly
> damaging
> to their status as other religions? Big light and little light don't
> really call
> into question the other deity, necessarily.
>
> The problem with inferring intent is that one can play the game with so
> many
> mutually exclusive outcomes, as I just illustrated.

Is someone showing respect or disrespect if he refers to you as "that guy"
instead of "Glenn Morton"? Sure, you can argue that but it's just 1 point.
I gave 5 reasons for thinking it likely that Gen.1 has theological polemic
of the type I suggested. None of the them is a drop-dead proof but the
cumulative effect seems significant.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Tue May 30 19:13:56 2006