Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jim:

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:01 AM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

>
> Dr. Reinhard G.  Lehmann wrote:  “[T]here is  something that separates
> Jaqov and Laban forever: Language...and Religion!”  I agree with that, but
> the
> specific  question on this thread is whether Laban is portrayed in the
> text,
> anachronistically, as using a language, Aramaic, that is not attested as
> existing (at least in written form) until the 9th century BCE, many
> centuries
>  after any historical Patriarchal Age.


This is the argument from silence logical fallacy. Just because no written
record of the language survived (other than a few phrases such as here),
doesn’t mean the language didn’t exist.

The rest of your message builds on that error.


> Jim Stinehart
> Evanston, Illinois
>