Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il>]

> >
> 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
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