Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Walter Mattfeld" <mattfeld AT mail.pjsnet.com>]

Ken Smith noted-

<In addition, Deuteronomy is generally dated to the
reign of either Hezekiah or Josiah (are there any good arguments for an
exilic or post-exilic dating?)...>

<Wasn't syncretism pretty much universal in the ANE?  Why shouldn't we think
that wasn't exactly the case at KA?>

Ken, I have argued that the Primary History (Genesis-2 Kings) is Exilic. I
note a few scholars who question its being a Josanic document. cf.
http://www.bibleorigins.net/PrimaryHistory562BCE.html

http://www.bibleorigins.net/oneauthorprimaryhistory.html

As for your observation about Yahweh's syncretism, that is pretty much a
Secular Humanist understanding, which is of course is contra Confessional
understandings. For a Syncretistic view of Yahweh's 3,000 year evolution cf.

http://www.bibleorigins.net/YahwehYawUgarit.html


All the best, Walter

Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld
Walldorf by Heidelberg
Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany
www.bibleorigins.net