Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Giuseppe Regalzi" <regalzi AT infinito.it>]

Liz Fried wrote:

>>My point is the following: if Deuteronomy (or any other book)
>>can be consistently dated both on linguistic (if Vincent is
>>right) and on historical grounds (e.g. the connection with
>>Josiah's reform), then the burden of proof is on anyone who
>>questions this dating by invoking a purely conjectural
>>linguistic update: adfirmanti incumbit probatio, to use a nice
>>latin formula...
>
>If I understand Vincent correctly, these two "grounds" don't
>agree with each other.

Liz,

why not? Vincent wrote:

>what i appear to have at this point is the following: the bulk of
>kings is linguistically similar to amos/isaiah ca.700; whereas,
>the bulk/core of deuteronomy is similar to ezekiel/jeremiah
>ca.600.

Hilkiah `found' the Book of the Law in 621 BCE (2Kings 22:3-8).

Giuseppe

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