Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 01/07/2006 19:18, Joel Stucki wrote:
> ... The specific
> question here was language development from the time of Abraham. There
> is just simply no source to draw from to reconstruct this type of
> data. The same could be said about the lengthy recent discussion about
> Jacob's daughters.
No, Joel, there is one source, the biblical text. This is a valid 
source. It may be an uncorroborated source. But plenty of other things 
in ANE history are considered to be assured truths on the basis of one 
source with no confirmation. I say we should treat the Bible as (at 
least a priori) as valid a source as an any other we have.

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