Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

And according to Exod 15, the exodus only stopped when they entered the
mountain of God, i.e. when the temple was built. Maybe a link to a spurious
tradition in a hellenistic source--I believe it was Diodorus but do not kill
me if I am wrong, that Moses built the temple when he came from Egypt. Goes
also well with the strange note about the nehushtan that was thrown out of
the temple by Hezekiah: Why, if it was Moses' cobber snake.

NPL


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan D. Safren [SMTP:yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 January, 2000 20:10
> To:   Biblical Hebrew
> Cc:   Biblical Hebrew
> Subject:      Re: Genesis and Gilgamesh
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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