Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>]

By "isaiah" do you mean chs 1-39 or the whole book? If the whole book
patterns earlier than D, that would upset a few well-entrenched theories
- but they would tend to be confirmed if you found evidence that 40-55
or 40-66 is linguistically different from 1-39.

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent DeCaen [mailto:decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca]
> Sent: 11 June 2002 22:03
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: argumentation, liz
> 
> hello, liz,
> 
> congratulations on your forthcoming JAOS article:  i will be keen to
see
> it.  do you have the details of volume, etc.?
> 
> re date of D: you're right about dates.  i think the point is
*relative*
> dates.  but ca. 600 might be a reasonable terminus ad quem.  still,
this
> would be consistent with the seventh century generally, right?
> 
> i can distinguish between amos and isaiah on the one hand, and ezekiel
and
> jeremiah on the other;  and i find D patterns with the latter, whereas
> some of the Dt history patterns with the former....
> 
> just a thought....
> ;-)
> 
> salaam/shalom,
> V --
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> Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
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