Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

> > > preserves parts of an ancient literary style that went out of use during
> > > the
> > > early to mid bronze age:
> >
> > Do you have any evidence for this? As far as I am aware we don't have any
> > Hebrew manuscripts dated to that age (wish we did) and this line of
> > 'evidence' merely furnishes new issues for debate.
> No we don’t have any manuscripts that old (were it that we do) but we do
> have documents from other cultures, and they have revealed literary formulae
> that appear in Genesis, but not in later books. One of them is that the
> title and author of a document was listed at the end of the document, not at
> the beginning.
>
> >


You've mentioned this before in several other discussions but when I  
asked you for sources back then you admitted that it was something you  
had taken in good faith from an old lecturer. The texts in Genesis  
that you have stated in the past as having this style could equally,  
if not better, be interpreted the other way. Can you at least cite  
some contemporary documents that unambiguously display this style so  
that I consider whether it has any basis or not?

James Christian

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