Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

I don't think I was assuming this. I hope not, as it is one of the 
things which I might hope to demonstrate! Of course only Samuel and 
the early part of Kings could possibly be this early. Indeed I was 
trying not to assume anything, but I was suggesting that the language 
differences show that Samuel-Kings was written some time either before 
or (less probably) after Chronicles. But a century or so time 
difference is more than long enough, especially if the traumatic 
events of the exile and return come between the two books.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: BH: Hebrew Aspects
Author:  <cynthia AT oumail.openu.ac.il> at Internet
Date:    22/02/2000 15:18

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2. Peter wrote:
If I assumed a linguistic argument for dating Chronicles to the same 
general period as Ezra and Nehemiah, then at least I am making the 
same assumption as many others.
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The date of Chronicles is not the problem with BH diachronics, but the 
assumed Iron I provenence for MT Sam-Kgs.

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