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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

     Karl W. Randolph wrote:

 ...> You mentioned in
particular HYKL as being from Sumarian. If Sumarian was still spoken as a
native tongue as late as the nineth century BC,<  ...
 
     Ignorance is not a good scaffold for conjecture -  UH
 


...>The same with Ugaritic—I have seen dates as late as roughly 800–600 BC for
when the library was composed and it is possible that Ugarit was destroyed
by the Babylonians around the same time as Judea was exiled <...


     Again - ignorance is a poor scaffold for conjecture -UH

     Uri Hurwitz                           Great Neck NY




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