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  • From: jimstinehart AT aol.com
  • To: kwrandolph AT gmail.com, bjwvmw AT com-pair.net
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Year 13 Hebrew Grammar
  • Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:49:36 -0400






Karl wrote: “As for the dating, Jim Stinehart has long ago indicated that he
believes that Genesis is not a historical book, rather a set of legends that
were compiled centuries after the event. Therefore, to argue dates is useless
with him.”

On the contrary, my view is that the bulk of the Patriarchal narratives was
composed in Year 15 [during the Amarna Age], by the first Hebrew [only one
author], and has pinpoint accurate historical recall of the key events of
Years 12-14. I categorically reject the mainstream scholarly view that the
Patriarchal narratives “were compiled centuries after the event”. Since I
view the Patriarchal narratives as having been composed by a contemporary of
the events that are being described, it is of the utmost importance to me
when the last 40 chapters of Genesis were composed. Indeed, the potential
excitement of the Hebrew grammar issue concerning the second half of Genesis
14: 4, which is the subject of this thread, is precisely that it may give us
an absolute date for one key event in the Patriarchal narratives. From that,
we can then derive the dates of many other events in the Biblical text, and
also determine the date of the composition of the text as well. That is why
it is so important whether or not Genesis 14: 4 says, and means to say:
“…and Year 13 they rebelled”.

Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois







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