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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Sahaduta at Genesis 31: 47
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 07:06:15 -0700

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
>




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