Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 02:52:32AM -0700, K Randolph wrote:
> Petr:
> 
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz> wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> 
> 
> What sort of question is this? The text of Tanakh is evidence. Whether you

No! It's definitely not an "evidence". The Hebrew Bible is ideologicaly
biased text and not a historical record. On the contrary, it can be
proven, that "dating" itself "long in the past" served Hasmonean writers
of Tanakh for their ideological purposes...

> trust it or not is a different matter. Further, the sentence I wrote above
> does not specifically claim that Genesis is from the early bronze age,
> rather that Genesis is the only historical record that gives any indication
> of the language of early bronze age Canaan.
> 
> The claims of Tanakh: Solomon started building the temple 490 years after
> the Exodus, which was 430 years (LXX) or 645 years (MT) after the promise
> given to Abraham. That puts Abraham in the early bronze age.

Those are just claims. No proofs. 

On the other hand, If (as some scholars pointed out recently) according to the
Tanakh "chronology" the year 164 BCE occured "4000 years after the creation" 
and
the exodus happened 2666 years after creation (which is 2/3 of 4000), it's
clear that the Tanakh was COMPOSED in year 164 BCE by/for the Hasmonean 
rulers!

> Karl W. Randolph.
> 

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