Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ruthy & Baruch" <alster AT comandcom.com>]

Dave wrote:

>I'm also interested in studies of the phrase `ad 
> hayyom hazzeh as a possible dating tool in other passages, 
> particularly those mentioning place names (i.e. "it's called x to this 
> very day").  If we take the phrase at face value, it seems to me that 
> the durations of such laws and place names might give us, at 
> least, latest possible dates for some of the texts before us.
> 

R. Isaac Abravanel in his introduction to Joshua mentions such verses as
proof that the story was written _much_later_ than the events.  Otherwise,
what is so special that it (whatever it is in each verse) remains "till
this day"?

Kol Tuv,
Baruch Alster
Kochav Ya`akov, Israel