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Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah.

From: "Noam Eitan" <neitian AT nyc.rr.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah.
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:46:15 -0400

> Kenneth Kitchen surprised me, in his recent
> book _On the Reliability of the Old Testament_, when he claimed that
> archeological finds suggest that even in pre-exilic times there may
> have been some functional literary widely spread through the
> population.

William Dever makes a similar claim in his "What ...& When...". There are
pre-exilic graffiti from the boondocks of the region. - Noam

[b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Christopher V. Kimball, 07/07/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Jack Kilmon, 07/07/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Yigal Levin, 07/07/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Jonathan D. Safren, 07/08/2004
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Giuseppe Regalzi, 07/09/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Peter Kirk, 07/08/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Harold R. Holmyard III, 07/08/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Harold R. Holmyard III, 07/08/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Noam Eitan, 07/08/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Karl Randolph, 07/09/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Jack Kilmon, 07/09/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah., Karl Randolph, 07/11/2004