Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:09:53 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bible authorship (was: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet) Message-ID: <20001110110952.E885@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200011081852.LAA21953@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:52:29PM %2B0000 References: <xzp66lys58p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200011081852.LAA21953@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Wednesday, 8 November 2000 at 18:52:29 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > [missing attribution to, IIRC, DES] >> I'm tempted to theorise that the phrase did not originate with the >> book you quoted, but rather that its author used an expression his >> readers were already familiar with. > > Feel free; if you can find a reference which predates 1687, in > any language, I'll be happy to reference it instead. I suppose this means whether you mean 1687 BC or 1687 AD. And admittedly there has been much discussion on the authorship of Isaiah, but there's less about the authorship of Ecclesiastes. On the other hand, I have seen no claims which suggests that either were written later than about 200 AD. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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