Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

This is very interestingVincent.
Why do you put Kings before Deuteronomy?
What about so-called "core" deuteronomy?
Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent DeCaen [mailto:decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 1:42 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: linguistic minimalism, finis (for now...)
>
>
> dear friends,
>
> i'm now in the home stretch of the job search here, and i'll probably
> maintain radio silence soon, very soon...... but in the meantime.
>
> this is a programme, not a theory, not conclusions, but a programme. so i
> don't have answers, yet, to how ezra patterns with 2 chronicles (but
> hopefully, the answers will start coming in soon). i don't know about
> jonah (though have done some interesting work on the pentameter in jonah
> 2). the jury's out on she- vs asher right now....
>
> but,
> i can now talk a little more, because a very rough draft of the programme
> with a few worked examples is now in print (a collection of papers from
> departmental symposia), the paper is still steaming from the press. ;-)
>
> so here're some initial results, yet to be confirmed, etc, etc.
>
> (a) strata
>
> so far, i have five clear strata (vs the old two: early vs late). i'm
> using datable milestones to attach approximate dates (* indicates the bulk
> of the book)
>
> stratum I     ca 700 -        amos, 1st isaiah        *kings
> stratum II    ca 600 -        jeremiah, ezekiel       *deuteronomy
> stratum III   ca 500 -        *zechariah              *gen-exodus
> stratum IV    400+ ?          job?                    numbers+gen/exod
> stratum V     ?               ecclesiastes            *ezra-nehemiah
> stratum ?     ?               qimron's DSS grammar
>
> i'm using fine variations, considered marginal, and hitherto unstudied in
> any rigorous fashion: verbal morphology, variants of pronominals, etc.
>
> programme: three volumes (morphological, lexical, syntactic) using the
> computer to create a "dialect geography" of the biblical text... time to
> completion: 2-3 years.
>
> to michael's question, what would this prove? well, i guess we'd have to
> give the same answer archaeologists and historians give... but a rigorous
> historical dialectology would be an important contribution all the same.
> of course, time of composition is logically independent of value and
> historicity of sources, etc.  i think, e.g., that chronicles has some
> historical gems, despite its putative time of composition.....
>
> sholom,
> V
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