Re: [asa] Re: Are there guidelines for accommodational interpretation?

From: Don Nield <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Thu Jun 15 2006 - 18:14:51 EDT

What Michael wrote is uncomfortably close to Baal .
Don
Michael Roberts wrote:

> Baa!
>
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> *Subject:* Re: [asa] Re: Are there guidelines for accommodational
> interpretation?
>
> Of course the Bible is false. It says, "The Lord is my shepherd."
> That means that the writer was a sheep. But he has not an /Ovis
> aries/. He was a /Homo sapiens/. The statement is clearly a
> deliberate falsehood. So, to revise Mark Twain's dictum, there are
> lies, damned lies, and poetry.
> Dave
>
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