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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[2]: historiography (Ken, again)
  • Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 00:04:07 -0500


Ah, now you are using just the argument which I did for the Hebrew
Bible well before the 2nd century BCE. Let me adapt your words to that
situation:

Again the web created by the authors of the Hebrew Bible makes it
possible to date persons like David or Solomon to a specific time. The
alternative would be to say that this web has been constructed by a
circle (quite an extensive one) of authors from a much later period.
That would exclude anywhere outside Judea because of lack of knowledge
of Hebrew in that part of the world. As to Judea, they would know
Hebrew in its late* Hellenistic form, but should in order to create
this web be able to write in standard Biblical Hebrew (DH), late
Biblical Hebrew (Chronicler), place the Writings in the right place
and do their dialects as well. The literary data from the Hebrew Bible
do fit together and seem also to go well with external evidence as
well.

* if Byzantine Greek is "late" relative to classical, the DSS Greek is
"late" realtive to BH

Now we may not have quite as much material or linguistic evidence for
BH as for classical Greek, but the argument is just the same. So, if
your argument is valid, is mine invalid, and why? Or is the different
simply in the quantity and/or quality of the evidence?

Peter Kirk



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Subject: Re: historiography (Ken, again)
Author: <npl AT teol.ku.dk> at Internet
Date: 01/01/2000 17:25

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[Niels Peter Lemche] Again the web created by several classical
authors makes it possible to date persons like Thucydides or Herodotus to a
specific time. The alternative would be to say that this web has been
constructed by a circle (quite an extensive one) of authors from a much
later period. That would exclude Western Europe because of lack of knowledge
of Greek in that part of the world. As to Byzans, they would know Greek in
its late Byzantine form, but should in order to create this web be able to
write in Ionian Greek (Gerodotus), clear Attic Greek (several otgher
authors), place Pindar in the right place and do his dialect as well. The
literary data from classical sourcs do fit together and seem also to go well
with external evidence as well. It is probably time for Ken Litwak to stop
this ridiculous discussion about classical analogies.
NPL





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