From: "Walter Mattfeld" <mattfeld AT mail.pjsnet.com>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Exilic Primary History ? Yahwehism ?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 04:00:55 +0100
Ken Smith noted-
<In addition, Deuteronomy is generally dated to the
reign of either Hezekiah or Josiah (are there any good arguments for an
exilic or post-exilic dating?)...>
<Wasn't syncretism pretty much universal in the ANE? Why shouldn't we think
that wasn't exactly the case at KA?>
As for your observation about Yahweh's syncretism, that is pretty much a
Secular Humanist understanding, which is of course is contra Confessional
understandings. For a Syncretistic view of Yahweh's 3,000 year evolution cf.