[LCC] Davidson on Verstraete's and Hubbard's reviews

[Terrence Lockyer]

Gregory S. Jones writes:

: hmmm...would it be fair to say that Davidson ultimately
: resorts to ad hominem attacks in defense of the criticism
: aimed at the weaker aspects of his argument (or what
: Hubbard calls "an insufferable cesspool of dross")?  And
: if so, what does this say about the editorial policies of
: the BMCR?

I can't know, but suspect that Davidson would respond that he had 
been accused of "catering to contemporary sensibilities" and 
"creating an anachronistically sanitized and romanticized 
picture" in framing his arguments (that is, of seeing the ancient 
world through the lens of a modern agenda), so it is fair to 
consider whether his accusers themselves have an agenda in making 
what are, after all, fairly strongly-worded attacks;  which he 
apparently thinks they do.  (Please note:  I am making no 
judgement as to the rights and wrongs;  just stating what I 
presume would be Davidson's view, on the basis of what he 
writes.)


Terrence Lockyer
Johannesburg, South Africa