Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

        Sometimes silence can be very noice, and you have to go through the
arguments to say whether it is really from silence, or something that look
like silence because of a literary source indicates this, but if we do not
accept the OT to be on line with, e.g. other kinds of evidence (other
categories), we have no argument from silence but the case that somebody is
comparing non-compatible categories..Something to do with Russell's
differentiation between categories in an argument. We say here: What is the
highest, the round tower in Copenhagen or a lightning, 'higher' Danish
'højere' can both have to do with loudness and highth.


        NPL

> Dear Walter,
> 
> There is a very simple answer to almost all of your arguments here: 
> they are simply arguments from silence.
> 
> I notice that in your quote Redford speaks of a "post-Exilic editor". 
> So is it really true that "he concluded... that Genesis was written in 
> the Post-Exilic period"? Apparently not; he is not supporting your 
> position that "Genesis is a Post-Exilic creation". I find Redford's 
> position, limited post-exilic editing, much more plausible than yours 
> - although I wonder why the editing could not rather be in late 
> pre-exilic times.
> 
> Peter Kirk
> 
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
> _________________________________
> Subject: "Post-Exilic"  Genesis (long)
> Author:  <mattfeld AT mail.pjsnet.com> at Internet
> Date:    21/01/2000 20:42
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Redford is an Egyptologist, he concluded on the basis of his research that
> 
> Genesis was written in the Post-Exilic period:
> 
> "The Egypt that shows through in the Table of Nations is the Egypt of 
> Psammetichos I and his descendants, the 26th Dynasty. To contend that the 
> Hebrews must have been familiar with Egypt from high antiquity is to
> belabor 
> a truism. But the post-Exilic editor was publishing for his
> contemporaries; 
> and the Egypt he felt obliged to explain for them was the Nilotic power of
> 
> his own time." (p.408)
> 
> My research, quite independent of Redford's, and following a different
> line 
> of inquiry (Madai's descent from Japheth) arrived at the same conclusion, 
> Genesis is a Post-Exilic creation.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
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