Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: "Uri Hurwitz" <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
Cc: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pronounciation


> Add to the difficulties is that the surviving records of history seem to 
> be
> all messed up.
>
> For example, the archaeological indications of the Exodus are centuries
> prior to the historical records. Other examples abound.
>
> So when was the library at Ugarit composed? When was the fall of Sumaria? 
> An
> honest historian would have to admit that those dates are uncertain.
>
> Likewise the dates that loan words could have come from the languages
> involved are uncertain.
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What's the point of repeating ever and ever again that a number of things 
are "uncertain", whatever that word means ?

What's at stake here ?

Arnaud Fournet