Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:26 PM, K Randolph wrote:
>
>>> 3) Your “early” counter examples have been pointed out by some historians
>>> actually to have dated from the early iron age, i.e. around 900 BC, rather
>>> than the 1800 BC claimed by the majority of academic historians. So there
>>> are questions about the validity of those counter examples.
>>

> Are those the sources that you seriously consider as questioning the 
> validity
> of the counter examples?

Also, if all the Old Babylonian sources are redated, then you are certainly
going to have very late uses of the title/name convention.,  In any case, the
point of the older counter examples was to show that in various letters, the
name of the author appeared first, whereas even in documents dated to
Cyrus, there were cases where the scribe would place his name at the
very end.

Yitzhak Sapir