To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Genesis 1 & 2
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 17:42:04 +0100
>Not one soul on
>here responded to my post about the possibility of supposedly older OT
books written
>in Late Biblical Hebrew being late translations of older works.
I don't think a sufficient case has been made for dating based on the
differences in the form of language found in the texts. If they are
contemporary, or partially contemporary, dialects, then there is no case.
(But I'm not able to make any qualified comments here.)