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  • From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
  • To: <JimStinehart AT aol.com>, <uzisilber AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Asher again
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:57:54 +0200


----- Original Message ----- From: <JimStinehart AT aol.com>
To: <uzisilber AT gmail.com>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Asher again



Uzi wrote:
“I know that these are the patriarchal narratives…but the prophetic writings were probably composed not too long after….”

Jim wrote:
Hello, hello? How can you say such a thing?

The Patriarchal narratives are much, much older than the rest of the Bible.

1. The Hurrians began to go extinct in the second half of the 14th century
BCE, and were long forgotten by the time the rest of the Bible was
composed.
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I'm not competent to judge if the "Patriarchal narratives" are indeed older or much older.

As far as Hurrians are concerned, Gelb's book (1944 Hurrians and Subarians. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press) lists a number of Person Names most of them are fairly clearly Hurrian as late as the middle of the first millenium BCE. See p. 81-84 “Latest Traces”
Excerpts:
"Gradually Hurrians disappear from the large areas in which they were found so profusely in the several centuries after 1500 B.C. For the time around 1100 B.C. and the following centuries an entirely different ethnic picture is given by the occurences of Hurrian personal names in Assyrian historical inscriptions. In order to make clear the new geographic distribution, only sure occurences of names which can be definitely linked with sites are quoted below. [...] 11. Ashurbanipal warred also against Ah-Seri, king of the Manneans, who had a son, Ualli and a grandson Eri-sinni. Of these three names Ah-Seri is probably, Eri-sinni certainly, Hurrian. [...] The most interesting conclusion from the negative point of view is that Hurrians are completely absent from central Mesopotamia."

Best

A.
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But just look at all the vintage Hurrian names in the Patriarchal
narratives: $N‘R, )RYWK, BR(, BR%(, $M)BR, $N)B, HCCN TMR, (PRWN, )YLWN, and B)RY.
Those are vintage Late Bronze Age Hurrian names that would have been
incomprehensible to all later Biblical authors. (No wonder $N‘R later got mixed
up by later Biblical authors with Sumer, even though there’s no linguistic
match to Sumer, and $N‘R at Genesis 14: 1 is referring to Syria, not to
Babylonia or southern Mesopotamia.)
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I cannot see what makes these names vintage Hurrian.
What are the vowels exactly in those names?

A.
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