Sure, why not? We're dealing with what I call the accident of preservation,
for one thing. The LXX and DSS were done on parchment or papyrus, whereas
the Sumerian documents were done on fired clay. Is one likely to survive
longer than the other? I would hope so. Furthermore, the DSS are not the
oldest examples of "recorded Hebrew writing" that we have. ISTM that the
paragraph below has one standard for Sumerian and another for Hebrew, which
is not a valid procedure. We have no real idea how old the Hebrew language
is, and were it not for the accident of preservation, we wouldn't have any
idea that Sumerian ever existed. Basing such crucial decisions on the whims
of nature seems like shaky ground to me.
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