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  • From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il>
  • To: "Kurt Noll" <KLNoll AT kwc.edu>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The Priestly Stratum
  • Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:42:54 +0200

> >
> But (and this is my main point), at the end of the day, our data permit
> us to estimate earliest possible compositional date and latest possible
> compositional date, and not much else. For the typologically earlier
> phase of biblical Hebrew ("JE" and "Dtr" and so forth), this range would
> be from early Iron Age II to late Persian era, and for "P" and so forth
> the range is late Iron Age II to well into the Hellenistic era. In
> other words, even the linguistic arguments really don't help very much
> with respect to dates of composition.
>
I think Prof. Avi Hurvitz would completely disagree with this assessment. He
regards the Hebrew of P as First and not Second Temple.
Sincerely,
Jonathan D. Safren, Editor
Mo'ed - Researches in Judaic Studies
Center for Jewish Culture
Beit Berl College
Beit Berl Post Office
44905 Israel
Tel. 972-9-7476396




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