Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>]

Peter Kirk wrote:

> Here you are confusing the final editing of the text with the origin
> of the traditions, or trying to assume that these are contemporaneous.
> R. Abraham ibn Ezra was on the right track if he recognised that a few
> passages were later editorial revisions. So their dating can only give
> us a possible date for the final editing of Genesis, and tell us
> nothing about the dating of earlier versions, whether written or oral
> tradition.

[JSafren] Try the second last verse of the Song of the Sea, Ex. 15:17: "Your 
hands, O
YHWH, have founded the Temple", after the description of the Conquest and 
Settlement
in the preceding verses. Indicating that the Song was written in First Temple 
Times.
Yours,
Jonathan D. Safren