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  • From: Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re[4]: Latest Speculation (Peter)
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 12:01:43 -0500 (EST)


Thank you, Ian, for your description of the redaction process. I fully
accept that later redactors may have made changes like making names
more acceptable e.g. Eshbaal to Ishbosheth, some obsolete people name
to Philistines etc. But that is irrelevant to the point I was making,
which is that it is at least possible that the original sources (or
some of them) were written not long after some of the events they
describe. To that I would add a corrollary that at least some part of
the informaton in those original sources has come down to us not
completely corrupted - and if you deny that, you deny all of the
criteria for distinguishing sources and undermine the whole
documentary hypothesis.

Peter Kirk




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