Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Well, Ian, I'm sorry if I have misunderstood your presuppositions, or 
perhaps called them your presuppositions when they are in fact your 
conclusions. Or perhaps I am confusing your views with those which Jim 
West has just posted. So are you saying that at least Deuteronomy is 
much older than the Maccabean period? A small step in the right 
direction!

You are right in saying I don't accept the arguments in your posting, 
but I don't want to get into another long discussion about them now. 
But I just thought I would point something out:

"(I didn't go into the fact that Palestine was well within Egyptian 
hegemony until the Philistine invasion cut off their connections.)"

So the area was called Palestine before the time of the Philistine 
invasion?! Perhaps that's where the author of Genesis got the name 
"Philistine" from!? ;-)

Peter