Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>]

I'm a bit puzzled by this suggested criterion.  Doesn't it seem to ignore
the cumulative nature of previous finds?  After all, the more is learned
from successive finds, the less likely the next find is to contain something
new....

Lewis Reich

----- Original Message -----
From: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>

> Fred Cryer once mentioned as some kind of criteria that all
> important inscriptions found in the area includes some new information,
and
> argued that this is not the case of the Tel Dan inscription--not even a
> single word which we cannot translate. He found this to constitute a
> problem, although it must certainly be reckoned circumstantial evidence
and
> not proof of anything.