On 2/28/08, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Doug said: *They OT writers probably did consider the ANE cosmology to be
> factual, and the histories they tell were probably based on what they
> believed or experienced as events.*
> **
> This is the assumption I want to in some sense challenge: how do we know
> what the OT writers, and just as importantly their ANE predecessors and
> contemporaries, understood as "factual" within their own cosmologies /
> cosmogonies?
>
I think I agree with you. Perhaps I should have inserted the word "roughly"
before the words factual and believed in my sentence. I think they worked
from that basic worldview, but perhaps because they were prescientific did
not view "facts" about the physical world and history as strictly as we do
today. In any case, my point was that the OT is a mixture of fact and
storytelling, and it's probably not reasonable to constrain everything into
one or the other (i.e., "sensu" Seely or Hill).
Doug
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