Re: Why DH? (was Re: Balaam as the epitome of evil)

In article <1122571684.353556.182800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<yacovachi@xxxxxxx> wrote:


>Herman Rubin wrote:
>> I have never stated that there was no form of writing
>> at the time.

>You said there was no writing on parechment. You were WRONG. Stop the
>evasive answers, okay? You know very well what you said and what I
>meant when I called your thesis absurd.

>The issue was never "writing" it was "writing on PARCHMENT"? Why oh
>why can't you just be HONEST?

>> old parchments survived, but parchment was invented
>> after the Greeks conquered the Persians.

>Wrong. Parcxhment wiritng exists form th eEgyption forthh dynasty.
>Now again I CHALLENGE YOU!!!!! prove your staement or retract it.

Papyrus writing exists that far back. Papyrus is not
parchment, but the leaves of the papyrus plant, softened
and glued in a manner to make a writing surface.

As to how to prove a negative, I can only go by what others
have written. Short of a time machine, I cannot go back
to ancient Egypt and see what they had, and neither can you.
The historians and other scholars all agree that parchment
was invented around the time of the oldest Qumran scroll,
and that earlier skin writings were expensive and not too
long lasting.

>No evasive maneuvers, and no bullsh*t. Just prove your case.

>Jacko



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