To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Nomadic Scribes? (Peter, Ian)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:46:40 +0100
>Note to Ian - Ian you asked some questions in your last that I already had
answered in
>a previous note. If you no longer have it, you can easily find the
answers for
>yourself by reading the first six chapters of Joshua
Actually, I have read the text. What has a text datable at best to 2nd
century BCE got to do with the 13th century BCE? Would you like to make a
case for using such a text? Would you use the Morte d'Arthur for pre-Saxon
England?
>(you need to explain the grain).
From my previous post:
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>[3] not plundered of grain
I could find no comments on grain in the Joshua account. This point might
be important to you but seems totally irrelevant to me.
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In the same post I also dealt with most of your other grievances posed in
your previous post regarding the hypothetical fall of Jericho as outlined
in Joshua.
>I also gave you a quote from Kenyon re. Jericho's walls that you apparently
>overlooked.
Kenyon didn't uncover the walls of Jericho and therefore didn't know much
about them.