Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

> Some of it might--certainly, that is the importance of fom-criticism that
> it can sometimes do this. Also the study of literary and religious motives
> has shown that such motives are able to survive for centuries. It is
> hardly a coincidence that west-Semitic religious ideas as found in the
> Ugaritic texts (killing the Dragon) still pops up even in a very late
> biblical book such as Daniel (You don't need to be a member of my circle
> to be of that opinion--almost every biblical scholar of notice shares that
> idea). 
> 
> NPL
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moshe Shulman [SMTP:mshulman AT ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 02 January, 2000 01:44
> To:   Biblical Hebrew
> Subject:      RE: historiography
> 
> At 02:54 AM 01/01/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> >I would say happy new year, we are by now three hours within the official
> >3rd millennium here.
> >Remeber something called form-criticism? And what kind of text are we
> >talking about-formcriticallty speaking. I am not inconsistent as I never
> >said that the text need to be contemporary with the earliest manuscripts
> but
> >ther earliest manuscripts are the starting point, if you want to dig
> >bagwards, and there is in the case of the Hinnom inscriptions plenty of
> >indications that their text was already accepted as a formulaic text. It
> is
> >matter of genre and context.
> 
> Wouldn't you say that the Biblical texts of the 2nd BCE show the same type
> of accceptance as the Hinnom inscription and hence we need to posit a
> similar pre-history?
> 
> 
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