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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Singers
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:34:42 +0100

On 10/08/2004 08:55, Yigal Levin wrote:

...

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.


Their reservations might evaporate if they took this kind of linguistic evidence seriously. There are real linguistic differences between the clearly post-exilic books and the rest of the HB, which imply at least a different time of composition and suggest a period of instability allowing rapid language change. (On this hypothesis, Esther has to be explained as deliberate archaising.)

But I won't push for a pre-exilic Qohelet.

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Peter Kirk
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