Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 08/11/2005 16:05, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> ...
>
> There are no historical claims in the Bible that it was written
> centuries before Ugarit. ...

Don't spoil your generally strong arguments with weak ones like this. 
There are claims in the Bible that Moses wrote down at least large parts 
of the Law just before his death. There is a specific claim in the Bible 
which dates the Exodus to 480 years before Solomon founded the Temple, 
and further claims in the Bible from the cumulative dating of the kings 
which would put the Exodus sometime in the 15th century BCE (if we 
accept the generally accepted dates for the neo-Babylonians). On any 
chronology the surviving Ugaritic texts were written some centuries 
later than this. So I think it is reasonable to say that there are 
claims in the Bible that significant parts of it were written down 
"centuries before Ugarit" - and Karl never claimed that this was true of 
more than some biblical Hebrew texts, i.e. parts of the Bible. Now you 
may wish to doubt the authenticity and accuracy of these claims, but 
that is a different matter from denying their existence.

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