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From: "Thomas L. Thompson" <tlt AT teol.ku.dk>
To: 'yochanan bitan' <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>, "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: SV: hurvitz and I
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:11:32 +0100

Randall Buth wrote:
> yes, classical hebrew exists as a layer,
> and no, it was not written after the exile.
>
This use of metaphorical language is terribly puzzling to me. What do you
mean by a "layer" in a text? I know what it is in a cake and a tell. Do
you mean as the "Yahwist source" in the pentateuch? If so, the hypothesis of
such layering is dependent on a specific theory of composition, involving
both earlier and later elements within the same texts.
When is after the exile in absolute chronology? Which exile?

Thomas

SV: hurvitz and I, Thomas L. Thompson, 02/04/1999
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