Biblical Hebrew Forum

[JimStinehart AT aol.com]

Oun Kwon:
 
Thank you for your kind words.
 
1.  You wrote:  “Are you perhaps writing a book?”
 
No, I have no immediate plans to write a book.  I am still learning about the 
Patriarchal narratives.
 
2.  You wrote:  “With comments, Q/A, and clarification
 you have after postings, perhaps you may polish what you have posted
 and bring into a book form (say, in pdf format).  It would benefit many
 with give insightful (and, not less, provocative) information.”
 
The comments I receive on my postings here are invaluable to me.  I have 
learned so much more about the Patriarchal narratives since I started posting 
here.  Part of that is due directly to the criticisms of my views I have 
received 
here.  And part of it is due to the fact that when I type up my thoughts on 
an 
aspect of the Patriarchal narratives, I often realize that there are issues 
there that I had not previously explored.
 
3.  My fond hope is that someday I will convince at least one university 
scholar to investigate seriously the possibility that the Patriarchal 
narratives 
may be closely based on well-documented historical events from the mid-14th 
century BCE.  It is my considered opinion that the current scholarly view, 
which 
sees the Patriarchal narratives as being composed (or at least very heavily 
edited) by four or more southern Hebrews in the mid-1st millennium BCE, 
simply 
cannot be squared with the substantive content of the text.  As I see it, 
there 
was only one author of the Patriarchal narratives, he was a pre-Hebrew from 
northern Canaan who became the first Hebrew, and he lived in the mid-14th 
century BCE.  I view the Patriarchal narratives as being the rock-solid 
historical 
foundation of Judaism.
 
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois




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