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  • From: mjoseph <mjoseph AT terminal.cz>
  • To: "b-Hebrew Digest" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Nomadic scribes
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jan 99 22:51:22 -0000


Ian Hutchesson, responding to:

>If you no longer have it, you can easily find the
>answers for yourself by reading the first six chapters of Joshua

wrote:

>Actually, I have read the text. What has a text datable at best to 2nd
>century BCE got to do with the 13th century BCE?

Do I understand rightly that, at the earliest, Joshua 1-6 dates to the 2nd
century BCE? In that case, I presume that later historical books, such as
Kings, might be, say, 2-3rd century AD, and demonstrably late books, such
as Ecclesiastes and Malachi would be medieval?

Mark Joseph




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