Biblical Hebrew Forum

["jason silber" <uzisilber AT gmail.com>]

Jim,
throughout early genesis, especially in the Abraham cycle, there are several
references to 'bayamim hahem', 'in those days', confirming that that the
writer (or editor) had compiled the information much later -- id guess
during the eras of Hezekiah or Josiah. (or 700 years after the purported
events were supposed to occur?)

there are also references to towns being known differently at one point )
and Beit El which was once luz, and hevron nee kiryat arba)

the semi mythical nature would explain the multiple versions of events, the
doublets, the same events featuring different characters, the rounded
numbers (in baylonian style) of 180, 120, 40.

so wouldn't you agree that while some of the semi mythical information may
originate from sources from, say, the 15th century, that the writer who
ultimately put this fathers cycles together would have lived in the 8th
century BCE at the earliest?
uzi





On 11/5/07, JimStinehart AT aol.com <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> Uzi:
> You wrote:  "what is the prevailing opinion of modern secular scholarship
> regarding  the identification of kasdim with kassites?"
> The prevailing view of academic secular scholars,  although it is wrong,
> is
> that "Kasdim" is not "Kasdim", but rather is  "Chaldeans".  The Chaldeans
> were not  prominent until the 1st millennium BCE.  If we let people get
> away
> with saying  that "Kasdim" is "Chaldeans", then we have forfeited any
> historicity of the  Patriarchal narratives.
> The author of the Patriarchal narratives had never heard  of the
> Chaldeans,
> who did not yet exist in his  day.
> We should be brave enough to look at what the text  actually says.  There
> is
> nothing  about "Chaldeans" in the Patriarchal narratives.  There is
> nothing
> about Abraham's  "am"/people/ancestors living in Mesopotamia prior to
> Abraham'
> s birth in the  Patriarchal narratives.  There is  nothing about Abraham
> speaking broken Hebrew, or miraculously learning Hebrew on  the fly, when
> he
> leaves Harran and travels to southeastern Canaan.  Nothing like that is in
> the
> text.
> The Hebrews were indigenous to Canaan or greater  Canaan.  That's what
> academic  secular scholars have verified in the last 30 years or so, and
> that's what'
> s  been in the Patriarchal narratives all  along.
> The text of the Patriarchal narratives is perfect, as  is.  But we must
> look
> at what the  text actually says.  The  conventional misunderstandings of
> the
> Patriarchal narratives are completely  non-historical.
> Jim Stinehart
> Evanston, Illinois
>
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