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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2><BR>R' Richard Wolpoe mistakenly thought that I was the one who wrote
this, and appended my name to words I actually DISAGREE with:<BR><BR>==begin
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size=2>> Now, I wonder, to what extent did Chazal realize when they were
being<BR>> anachronistic? Is that they didn't care about historical accuracy,
but<BR>> nevertheless knew when they were being anachronistic, or did
they<BR>> genuinely lack a real historical sense b'klal?</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>==end quote==</FONT></DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>In fact, it was R' Mikhael Markovi, not I, who wrote the quoted
material. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>I actually objected quite strongly to such wording and replied to RMM, in
part:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>==begin quoting myself==</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>I totally reject the premise <BR>that Avraham didn't really keep
the Torah at all and that Chazal "of course" <BR>were being anachronistic
when they said he did. I therefore also reject your <BR>question --
"Did they know they were being anachronistic and went ahead and <BR>told
us stories anyway, or were they so ignorant, as all ancient peoples
<BR>were, that they had no idea of historical chronology?" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV>==end quoting myself==</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>I further wrote that it is NOT proper to speak of Chazal that way,
that we may not speak of Chazal condescendingly or assume that they were
"ignorant, like all ancient peoples."</DIV>
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size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
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