Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Christian M. M. Brady" <christian.brady AT tulane.edu>]

On 9/3/00 11:11 AM, "Jim West" <jwest AT highland.net> wrote:

> At 09:27 AM 9/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> But the same arguments that you are presenting for the Hasmonean period
>> could be used to justify dating the text to the United Monarchy (as has
>> been). The people have just conquered a land and united diverse tribes 
>> which
>> now need a unifying history, thus the king of the day orders a history to 
>> be
>> written that justifies their existence. Works kind of well for
>> David/Solomon, don't you think? ;-)
> 
> save for one fact--- the language of the texts is much later than the period
> of the united monarchy.  fred cryer demonstrated this, to my mind
> conclusively, in his SJOT article several years back.
>
There is the difference. Fred has not convinced many others of that point.

Cb
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