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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Sign your posts
  • Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:02:45 +0200

Dear Uzi/Jason,

Please remember to sign your posts with at laest your first and last names.


Yigal Levin
co-moderator


----- 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..







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
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