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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ruth
  • Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:36:40 -0700

Yitzhak:

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>wrote:

>
> No, I say that the influence is earlier and dates from the period of
> Hezekiah.
> While it is clear Aramaic influence was increasing at the time, I didn't
> think
> it would have effect so soon. But apparently it did. Arad 49 is found in
> layer
> VIII that everyone agrees (this is pretty hard to get to when it comes to
> Arad) was destroyed in 701 BCE. It contains a list of names of donors to
> a Temple, and in this context we see the use bny used for 2 persons and
> 3 persons, with bn used for 1.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
>
> That seems like pretty slim pickings to base a theory on. In other words,
at that time, the people still used good Biblical Hebrew for their daily
speech.

Karl W. Randolph.




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