Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

Hello Karl,

Originally, a few days ago you wrote:
> 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.

Now, you write:
> As for when the formula stopped being used, it is not found in books later
> than Torah when looking at Biblical evidence. Seeing as Torah was written in
> the middle bronze age, that would give us a date when it stopped being used.

Do you still think that we can date these formula by their use in
"other cultures"
or have you changed your mind? (Possibly, in light of the recent discussion 
with
Dave Washburn)

Yitzhak Sapir