Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Singers


> Liz:
>
> Except for 1 Kings 10:12 and 2 Chronicles 9:11 and 35:25, all the other
uses of $RYM is by authors who were writing before or were born and reared
before the Galut Babel.
>
> All the uses of M$RRYM is post Galut Babel.
>
> This is a case of language shift over time.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>

That's assuming that both the Deut. History AND Qohelet are pre-exilic,
which most scholars would have reservations about.

Yigal