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[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jason silber" <uzisilber AT gmail.com>
To: <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Was Abraham Born in Mesopotamia?


> 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 listeners place
> name information they wouldn't know..
>
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> 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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