Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ian Young <ian.young AT arts.usyd.edu.au>]

Hi Chris,

The classic study is:

Avi Hurvitz, The Transition Period in Biblical Hebrew: A Study of
Post-Exilic Hebrew and its Implications for the Dating of Psalms,
[Hebrew] Jerusalem, Bialik, 1972.

This is the foundational study for Hurvitz's method of identifying "Late
Biblical Hebrew".  But yes, it is in Hebrew.

A summary, focussing on methodology, was published in English as:

Avi Hurvitz, "Linguistic Criteria for Dating Problematic Biblical
Texts", Hebrew Abstracts 14, 1973, p.74-79.

Basically all the Psalms that Hurvitz suggests are Late are numbered
100+.

Let me also try to sell you something.  A collection of articles arguing
for and against a chronological approach to Biblical Hebrew is:

Ian Young (ed), Biblical HebrewStudies in Chronology and Typology,
JSOTSup 369, T&T Clark, London, 2003.

Ian Young
Sydney University


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From: "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
Subject: [b-hebrew] Dating the Psalms by language
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Have the Psalms been dated on the basis of their language?  All I have
is
that the first 3 books of Psalms are possibly earlier than the last two
and
that the probable dates are from David to the Exile.

Chris Kimball