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Farrell Till published the e-mail that Philip Davies sent to Gavin Steingo and me ("Mailbag," TSR, vol. 13.3, p. 15). Then Till concluded that Davies is one of my "own scholars." This is a tactic that Till used over and over in our debate both in TSR and on the internet. I clearly pointed out when a scholar took the traditional view of the church and when he took the critical view concerning the date and authorship of the book of Daniel. Why would this email from Davies now suddenly put it on record that the stories in Daniel are "largely legendary"? I have always made it clear that Davies takes this critical position.
It is my view that Farrell wants to take away the focus from the fact that Davies basically called him an idiot for arguing the point in Daniel 3:1 that the statue the author pictured was a solid gold one. I took great joy in giving the evidence from such critical scholars as Jeffery, Collins, Montgomery, Hartman, DiLella, and Driver that demonstrated that objects that were just overlaid with gold were called gold objects in the Old Testament (Ex 30:3 Is 40:19 Jer 10:3-4). Did Farrell Till concede the point? No, he just continued for about 30 more emails to insist he was right even though critical scholars agreed that he was wrong on this point. Davies also said in his letter that it was silly to insist that Belshazzar was not acting as King. Yet Till has argued that point along with Matson and Wildish. However, the most silly position by Till is that he still insists that Daniel's Aramaic has a 2nd century linguistic style and then he followed that up with this idea of a knowledgeable forger. In that argument he contends someone could have written Daniel in the 2nd century and just put in the linguistic style of the 6th century. I guess it never occurred to Till that these two arguments cancel each other out.
(Everette Hatcher, Box 23416, Little Rock, AR 72221, e-mail, everetteiii@aristotle.net)
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