To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: hu=hi?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:34:07 -0600
>
>
> Although I have no comment on the cause of this perpetual qeri'/kethib, I
> do think it
> should be obvious that it has no bearing on the validity of the documentary
> hypothesis.
> The consistency of the phenomenon in Torah and relative absence outside it
> seems
> more indicative of a global change in orthography than any difference or
> lack thereof in
> source.
> ---
It's easy to declare such a hypothesis "obvious," isn't it? Especially since
there is no
documentary or linguistic evidence to either affirm or refute it. That's the
beauty of
this field: one can toss out just about any idea and have a 50-50 chance of
being
right.