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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Written by Women.???
  • Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:30:51 -0700


Raymond,
> Shalom Liz,
>
> > Freedman makes a case in his Who Wrote the Torah (a case
> > adopted without attribution by Bloom) for the J writer to be female.
> > My question is how literate were women? How likely is it for there
> > to have been women writers? It seems very unlikely to me.
>
> Well, it is in my view not impossible. But the data that are at hand just
> suggest that the world of writers was a men's world. Especially in the
> beginning [roughly dated 1100-900 BCE/BC/-, :-) ) when the change came
> from cuneiform writing to the alphabetic script in Canaan. Only the
> alphabetic script created the opportunity that writing came in the realm of
> all kind of people, including women.

What exactly is this "data that are at hand"? Why would
cuneiform script imply that women couldn't write it? I don't follow
you.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated." C. S. Lewis




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