Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Thomas L. Thompson" <tlt AT teol.ku.dk>]

No Thompson doesn't deny chronological development; only that the theories
trying to define it coherently. My thousand years includes a clear
distinction between biblical and rabbinic Hebrew. 
Thomas 

> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra:  uri hurwitz [SMTP:uhurwitz AT yahoo.com]
> Sendt:        22. maj 2001 18:07
> Til:  Biblical Hebrew
> Emne: Re: SV: SV: QohSV: Qoheleth
> 
> 
>   truly I'm confused: does Thompson deny that there is diachronic
> development in BH?
>   It would seem that the epigraphic texts from Lakhish, Arad, Yabneh Yam
> alone would offer chronological help.
>    The orthography of a PN name like DWD always without a Yod in Sam., but
> always with a Yod in Chron., with a few Yods creeping into texts in
> between is
>  a clear indication of Orthographic development.
>    The syntactic differences, as well as some lexical (cf. SFR with )GRT
> )are of course well known.
>    That no exact date can be given for the composition or editorial
> treatment of texts that span a thousand  or more years (yes, early Heb
> poetry is ancient!) is regrettable, but in the case of the HB unavoidable
> in our present state of knowledge.          Uri  UriHurwitz
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