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  • From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
  • To: kwrandolph AT gmail.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The "Missing Link": Cuneiform Writing of Early Hebrew Words
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:29:37 -0500 (EST)

Karl:

 

Prior to the Iron Age, the amount of alphabetical pre-Hebrew writing is tiny.  Yes, it existed, but it was rare and in a rudimentary developmental stage.  There’s no way that the glorious, lengthy, detailed, truly ancient Patriarchal narratives could have been recorded by a contemporary of the events using alphabetical pre-Hebrew writing in the Bronze Age.  Not.

 

I have provided the “missing link” to get us from the 7th century BCE classic Hebrew alphabetical narrative prose of the received text way back to the Bronze Age, via a writing by a contemporary [that is, a written account commissioned by one of the tent-dwelling first Hebrews].  That “missing link” is using cuneiform, à la the Amarna Letters, to write west Semitic words in the Late Bronze Age Patriarchal Age.

 

Jim Stinehart

Evanston, Illinois



  • Re: [b-hebrew] The "Missing Link": Cuneiform Writing of Early Hebrew Words, JimStinehart, 12/07/2012

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