Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

No, indicating that the final editing of the song was in (or after) 
the first temple period. I appreciate the problem you mention to Rolf 
Furuli, that it is hard or impossible to know which parts of the Torah 
are the work of later editors. But that does not nullify the 
possibility, even likelihood, that such a process has taken place.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Genesis and Gilgamesh
Author:  <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il> at Internet
Date:    18/01/2000 21:09


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 
han
ds, O
YHWH, have founded the Temple", after the description of the Conquest and 
Settle
ment
in the preceding verses. Indicating that the Song was written in First Temple 
Ti
mes.
Yours,
Jonathan D. Safren