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  • From: Randall Buth <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: Vincent DeCaen <decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: re: BH diachronics and P
  • Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 18:39:05 -0400


shalom Vincent,

>help me with trying to understand the literature
>on diachronics:
. . .
>e.g., hurvitz and
>rendsburg have their own ideas about the development of israelite
>religion. the priestly source must be the earliest, and at least
>pre-exilic: regardless of the simple linguistic facts...<

Well, do you really think that your nunation arguments are strong enough
to overturn the simple linguistic facts that Avi has set out over 30 years?

I read Avi as saying P-material is linguistically, monolithically,
pre-exilic, therefore P is pre-exilic. Where does theology enter
that analysis?

For a crash course, see the article on "Priestly Source" in ABD by
Milgrom, (another theologizer?). Maybe the priestly material was pre-
exilic.

I'll be happy to pass your greetings on to Avi tomorrow morning at the
SemLang study group.

bivraxot
Randall Buth
Jerusalem




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