Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>]

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.