Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 21/09/2005 21:13, Karl Randolph wrote:

> Yitzhak:
>
> I don't know why you are putting so much effort to trying to 
> convince me that your reading of language development 
> is correct, if not to validate to yourself because of your own 
> self doubts. I am not trying to convince you that mine is 
> correct, just claiming that the surviving data is too sparse 
> to say.
>
> Take for example, when did Aramaic and Hebrew split? If 
> we take Biblical dates, that was when Jacob left his father-
> in-law Laban at about 1800 BC, give or take a century. ...

Where do you get that date from? What observable and repeatable 
phenomena are you relying on? And don't say the Bible, because that 
gives no absolute dates, everything is relative to neo-Babylonian and 
Persian dates based on eclipse records.


> ... when 
> Moses wrote Torah in the 15th century BC, ...

And where did this one come from?

...

> Seeing as I have a major philosophic difference from you 
> as to the validity of cognate language study, unless I 
> changed my philosophy, even an extensive study of the 
> materials you insist on will not change my mind. ...

Your major philosophical difference from Yitzhak and for that matter 
from almost the whole world is that you have adopted a philosophy which 
doesn't allow you to know anything at all about the past. You are 
wasting your time reading the Bible because you cannot know that it 
wasn't written yesterday.

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Peter Kirk
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