From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 9 19:12:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (earth.elinux.com.sg [203.120.99.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0571537B479; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 19:12:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAA39s501062; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:09:54 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:09:53 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Jordan Hubbard , Alfred Perlstein , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bible authorship (was: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet) Message-ID: <20001110110952.E885@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200011081852.LAA21953@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200011081852.LAA21953@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:52:29PM +0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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