Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

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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