Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

Peter Kirk wrote:

> On 13/04/2005 14:14, Ingrid Hjelm wrote:
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> > ... you cannot speak of the Misnahusing the MT, which did not exist 
> > in the 2nd century CE. At that time you have pre-masoretic texts ...
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> Agreed. But there is not just one pre-Masoretic text, there is a 
> succession of them covering more than a millennium.


Are you counting the examples from the DSS?  How early do you date them- 
because the earliest hebrew texts seem to date from about 200 BCE.  So 
are you counting 200 BCE to 1200 CE?  Are you calling texts till 1200 CE 
proto masoretic?  I'm not sure what your 1000 year chronology is dating 
from or to.


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