Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:58:31AM -0700, K Randolph wrote:
> James:
> 
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:20 AM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > #Of course, you are right. The fact that Hebrew is so closely related
> > to so many contemporary cognates seems to speak for itself...
> >
> > However, it does raise interesting linguistic questions. Let us
> > postulate that it is historically true that Abraham came out of Ur and
> > wandered around Canann. Let us also postulate that it is historically
> > true that Jacob and sons ended up in Egypt and that later generations
> > ended up in slavery and eventually came out of to wander about in Sinai.
> >
> > It does raise interesting linguistic questions about what language
> > they likely spoke in different periods of their wanderings:
> >
> > a) while in Canaan before the slavery
> 
> 
> What evidence do we have of Canaanite language from the early bronze age? As
> far as I know, the only evidence that survives to this day is Genesis.

Huh! What evidence do we have of Genesis comming from the early bronze age?

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