Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Tory Thorpe <torythrp AT yahoo.com>]

Jim and Karl:

I wish not to become embroiled in the seemingly never ending back and forth on Jim's ideas. However I am interested in the possibility of narrative material produced by some educated Asiatics domeciled in Egypt. The story of Moses is that he was born, raised, and educated among the elite of the elite in Egypt. This bespeaks a literary training in hieratic. This man would have known the classics (i.e. Sinuhe, etc.) well. All "narrative" of this time and location was composed in hieratic. Perhaps a figure fitting the description of Moses did know "ethnic" proto-Hebrew script. That does not a-priori mean he would compose narrative material in that script to the exclusion of hieratic.

Tory Thorpe
Tel, Aviv