Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

Karl Randolph wrote:
> Yitzhak:
> 
> Ezra 4:7 looks like it was originally written by someone who did 
> not know Hebrew very well, therefore used Aramaic loan words as 
> well as Aramaic spelling for the name. Ezra, the educated one, 
> did not arrive on the scene until chapter 7.

Karl,

I don't know how you decide this is the "Aramaic" spelling.  Further,
I don't know how you decide that Ezra 4:7 was written by someone
who did not know hebrew very well.  Every language has loan words
and it is to be expected that during the Persian period, there will
be a lot of loan words, from Old Persian and Official Aramaic.  The
fact that Ezra is described only in chapter 7 has nothing to do with
the dating of the earlier chapters.

Yitzhak Sapir