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  • From: Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Job and lqbl
  • Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 07:35:03 +0200

Dear Randall,

A discussion of whether a word or a text is "First Temple Hebrew" or not is only meaningful if we know the characteristics of "First Temple Hebrew" . Many scholars today believe that the whole Tanakh was written after the exile. So my questions to you are:

1) Which books or parts of books in the Tanakh represent "First Temple
Hebrew"?

2) Do we find documents outside the Tanakh that are written in "First Temple Hebrew"?

3) On the basis of which criteria can we know that a text is "First Temple Hebrew"?


Best regards,

Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo




You are not reading my questions correctly. I was asking for
a dialect profile of a verb "qbl", which would include any and all forms
with pronoun prefixes and/or suffixes, with or without vav, or a preposition,
and I was not interested in Hif`il forms, since that is a different
verb. I was adding 'L' in order to clarify that a Hif`il was not wanted in
the discussion.


Your statement "perfectly good Hebrew" is true
but it is not a dialect profile.

If it is intending to suggest that it is normal First Temple
Hebrew then you have explaining to do.





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