Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   George, do you really believe that poems like Gen 49 or Ex15 
and texts like QOHELET were written in the same period?

     I am a great admirer of Ian Young's scholarship, but
 cannot accept his conclusions. Though it is true that
 diachronoic markers in BH are not easy to find.

   And what relation has the final reduction of Genesis
 to do with  various components which the editors chose to
 leave? Consider Gen. 31:53, the spirit of which would be
 anathema to a late monarchic redactor.

   Uri Hurwitz                         Wilmington VT

   







GEORGE ATHAS  wrote:

Linguistic dating of biblical texts is just so fraught with difficulty and 
uncertainty that it can't really count as a clinching argument. Please refer 
to Young, Rezetko and Ehrensvärd's two recent volumes.

Genesis definitely reflects the monarchic era at the earliest (cf. Gen 36.31).


GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au