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  • From: dwashbur AT nyx.net
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Was Abraham Born in Mesopotamia?
  • Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:43:09 -0800

that's what it means now. It didn't necessarily mean "several hundred years"
back then.
That's not a valid extrapolation.

On 5 Nov 2007 at 16:11, jason silber wrote:

>
> Dave,
> as a Hebrew speaker i can tell you that 'bayamim hahem' implies that a long
> time had past.it
> implies another era.
>
> in a world which was much slower, place names didn't just change. even
> today, in the regions of
> Judea and Samaria many place names are Arabicized Hebrew names. in other
> words the place
> names haven't changed in 3000 years.
>
> the writer is communicating to contemporaneous readers or listenersplace
> name information
> they wouldn't know..
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/5/07, dwashbur AT nyx.net <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 5 Nov 2007 at 15:26, jason silber wrote:
>
> > 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?)
>
> Why "much" later?The phrase need not mean several hundred years, or
> even a hundred
> years.It's nonspecific and could mean just about anything.If we could
> establish when
> towns' names changed, or how long a certain location or monument
> endured ("It's there to
> this day") and that sort of thing, we might be able to sort it out in
> greater detail.But simply
> "bayyamim hahem" tells us virtually nothing.
>
> Dave Washburn
> Why do it right when you can do it again?
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Dave Washburn
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