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RE: Nomadic scribes

From: Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>
To: Steve Thompsonavondaleeduau <steve.thompson AT avondale.edu.au>
Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: RE: Nomadic scribes
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:22:22 +0000

At 03:25 PM 1/25/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Jim, how does your view of the uniformity of language of the Hebrew Bible
>stand up to the hypothesis that within the Hebrew of the Bible there is
>diversity of dialect, etc? This is argued, for example, by Ian Young in
>_Diversity in Pre-Exilic Hebrew_ (1993).

There might be diversity of dialect (as in the northern and southern US) but
that does not mean different compositional periods, does it?

Best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest AT highland.net
http://web.infoave.net/~jwest

Re: Nomadic scribes, mjoseph, 01/23/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Nomadic scribes, Jim West, 01/23/1999
- Re: Nomadic scribes, Paul Zellmer, 01/24/1999
- RE: Nomadic scribes, Steve .Thompson AT avondale.edu.au, 01/24/1999
- RE: Nomadic scribes, Jim West, 01/25/1999