Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

> Because in this area as in others we follow analogy. We have methods of
> dealign with other texts which tell us that the date of an extant fragment
> is not the date of the document. You have to give a reason as to why the
> dating of the Biblical text is not to be approached in the same way as the
> dating of Plato and Aristotle.
> 
> 
> moshe shulman mshulman AT NOSPAMix.netcom.com    718-436-7705
> 
        [Niels Peter Lemche]  I have already answered that question: read
the scholarly literature from the last 200 years. Ot at least some qualified
introduction to OT studies. It is available, and I gave an excellent title
for people with a conservative outlook. But also for people on my line.

        NPL