Winston wrote: ↑February 10th, 2024, 1:09 pm
I'd thought I might just look at her picture and say Is she hot?... well she's okay. But she's attractive. She's relatively young, especially for a Ph.D. (younger than the Ph.D's I work with). A lot of her looks is hair and make-up. Give her a butch haircut and no make-up and what does she look like. She looks like that lib from the young Turks but better looking.
Basically, she comes up with a different theory that contradicts the mainstream theories. And she does so based on a theory that runs contrary to what the historical understanding is. How is that debunking anything?
From what I've read, Judean Jewish men would typically be literate. Villages had a school where they taught Hebrew writing and memorization of the Torah for five years. Some could show the ability and have the finances to go for further education. Greek culture also had schools, too. So some Greeks would have been educated. But Jewish men might have had close to universal literacy in Judea at least. Aramaic used the same script as Hebrew. With Greek as a lingua franca, picking up the Greek script after they already had the concept and practice of reading, probably wouldn't have been that hard.
I haven't researched it, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hellenic Jews had some similar education with the Septuagint translation.
So Jews who farmed for a living, fished, etc. in Judea could likely write.
I'm relying on Edersheim for information about Jewish literacy. He's dated, before Qumran, but that would mean he doesn't know information that came later, not that his information is wrong. I think she's making commentary without knowing historical background. She's divorcing aspects of history, or reasonable historical assumptions, from literature, IMO. She's just assuming ancient people were ignorant. There are a lot of people who think that way, that modern means smarter, better, more educated, etc.
There also were Christian communities. I don't why any historian would reject that idea. Why would a literary scholar?
I also wonder what it would be like to be in a field of scholarship, where your scholarship relies so heavily on pure guesswork. You don't collect data. You don't use stats. You aren't commenting tightly on existing theory... well maybe she does that... but literary theory which can be other people's speculation and spouting off ideas about social concepts. I can have a regression analysis for some of the research I do.
@MarcosZeitola isn't this Robyn a hotter than my Robin? If I had this Robyn, then damn, the sex would be great and the conversation would be stimulating and intelligent too. It would be perfect. lol. What do you think? Why can't life be fair? Why does God only give me women I'm not compatible with instead of someone like this? Damn. Isn't she hot MZ? What do you think
I'm curious about 'my Robin.' Is there a chance this Robin is going to read this post, with you comparing her to this other Robyn, comparing sex, etc.?
Btw, are you saying you God heard talking to you, delivering you a Robin on a silver platter, maybe presenting you with a nice box with a ribbon around it and a woman inside? Or did you choose to do something like ask her out, date her, etc.? Is being hot what makes a woman compatible with you, or is it the PhD literature discussion capability?
Btw, my wife looks nothing like this woman, but I'd say my wife was better looking, for me personally, when I met her, than this woman. But that sort of thing is subjective.
