Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>]

Insofar as there are at least three people named Chris on this list, 
maybe it wouldn't hurt to add family names or initials or something? 
:-)

Chris (Heard) son of Robert son of Hubbard

On Mar 20, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Peter Kirk wrote:

> On 20/03/2005 21:18, Chris Weimer wrote:
>
> > > Yitzhak, I don't want to open up another long discussion on this 
> > issue.
> > > My rather quick reply to Chris was based more in the terms which 
> > I think
> > > he would understand i.e. taking the text of the book of Kings 
> > fairly
> > > literally. And I realise that this is not an entirely safe thing 
> > to do.
> > > Even in 2 Kings itself e.g. 23:15-20 there is evidence that the 
> > Samaria
> > > district was under the control of Jerusalem after the end of the
> > > northern kingdom.
> > Hold on a minute, how do you get that I take Kings historically? Let 
> > me clarify myself a bit, I was referring to the myriad Asherah and 
> > Baal inscriptions that the Yisrael was a polytheistic country, while 
> > the southern Yahwists didn't really exert their control until after 
> > the exile, and then not even right away (the number of deportees 
> > largely exaggerated). What are the latest inscriptions of other 
> > deities in the North.
> Chris Weimer, I was not referring to you but to Chris Watts(?) who 
> started this thread about Samaritan. Sorry for any confusion.
> ...
>
> > > This is perhaps a latest possible date for the split, but it is 
> > not an
> > > earliest one. There is no particular reason why the already 
> > separated
> > > Judeans and Samaritans could not have used the palaeo-Hebrew 
> > script in
> > > parallel from say the 5th to the 1st century BCE, at least for 
> > religious
> > > puposes to preserve the already centuries-old tradition. In fact 
> > it
> > > seems that the Judeans came to prefer the Aramaic-based Hebrew 
> > script at
> > > least towards the end of this period, perhaps simply because it 
> > was
> > > different from the Samaritans' preferred script.
> > Which is why I put it at the 3rd century, a reasonable time placement.
> Not when there is strong evidence that there was already a deep 
> (although not necessarily irreconcilable) split in the 6th-5th 
> century.
>
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R. Christopher Heard
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