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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Qohelet
  • Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:08:31 +0100

Hi Randall,

I know you don't like writing more than you feel is absolutely necessary but do you think you could expand a little on what you just said. Not all list members may know what the 'triple-test filter' is or why you feel it so infallible a test. Lots of us don't have a library nearby either. Typical places I have read emails and replied to them in the last months have been:

i) In the Sinai desert at the foot of Mount Sinai
ii) In the ruins of Philippi in Greece
iii) From an internet cafe in the sticks in Ukraine

Many thanks in advance,
James Christian

Quoting Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>:

So what is the origin of the root R(Y? The
Ugaritic and Akkadian evidence show that the root
existed in the days of Solomon. What its core
meaning and references were in the Hebrew
language in the 10th century B.C.E. we simply do
not know. Could this root or a similar one have
been used in the sense "striving" in the 10th
century? That can of course not be ruled out.>

Which is why one must use the triple-test filter
of Hurvitz' methodology if one is going to
test for accidental lack of attestation. While there
will always be fuzzy borders because of the nature
of historical evidence, the 'triple-test' allows a
profile of Second Temple Hebrew to be built up.
which allows for questions of consistency to be
be raised.

I once heard someone joke at an international
meeting 'if you've read one of Avi's articles, you've
read them all'. Well, he wouldn't need to keep
writing them if the field would clean up their act.
And the joker involved shouldn't just go on
assuming that priestly materials are Second
Temple when credible tests date them pre-exilic.

blessings

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