To: "b-Hebrew Digest" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Nomadic scribes
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 99 22:51:22 -0000
Ian Hutchesson, responding to:
>If you no longer have it, you can easily find the
>answers for yourself by reading the first six chapters of Joshua
wrote:
>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?
Do I understand rightly that, at the earliest, Joshua 1-6 dates to the 2nd
century BCE? In that case, I presume that later historical books, such as
Kings, might be, say, 2-3rd century AD, and demonstrably late books, such
as Ecclesiastes and Malachi would be medieval?