Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   George,
 
   I yield to no one in admiration for the scholarship of Ian Young; 
nevertheless,it seems to me that diachronic development can definitely be 
found in various BH texts. Of course, this is not a clear cut situation: 
language is not a flawless human invention, and to many linguistic rules 
there will exceptions, including this one.
 
  . One need not be a great scholar to sense that the style and language of 
Qohelet, is  radically different from that of Judges, for instance, and that 
it is much closer to that of Mishnaic Hebrew.  The content alone makes it a 
very late book indeed.
 
   To those on the list interested in the subject, may I recommend the works 
of Avi Hurvitz ( no relative of mine). It is true that one of the volumes 
edited by I. Young et. al contains fine essays by those objecting , like him, 
to dating by language, but also by others
who take the opposite, more traditional, position.
 
  And two more sentences about poetry like Jud. 5 etc. It is not just the 
vocabulary but the very meter  and form which impressed Albright, Cross, 
Friedman, and I think most biblicists today to judge it older.  Very 
important are the expressions and  metaphors directly borrowed from 
Canaanite, Ugaritic origins.
 
  In the DSS  E.Tov cites a number of simplifications of  grammatical forms  
which become standard or 'Harmonized' ;  he labels such texts as 'proto 
Samaritan'.  Just one example:  from Ge. 1:24 - WXYTW...  becomes WXYT...  - 
without the archaic final W    . Clearly the latter must be  later.
 
  
 
  Uri Hurwitz                                                           Great 
Neck, NY
 
 
   



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I have a basic question, but I am not able to find the answer to it
either in my books nor online.
When you have a word with dual tropes, which one is the accent?
Examples:
gn1:2,3 <TO33HW.03>
gn1:14,14 <W./L:/MO74W(:ADI80YM>

Thanks in advance.

B"H
John Steven

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