... So when the returnies from the Exile made Hebrew the language of
religion, legal and high literature, they froze the spelling (in so far as
there were spelling rules) to that which was used in the oldest and most
important books. In fact, this is one of the evidences I see for my claim
that the returnies from the Exile were no longer native speakers of Hebrew
(Ezra's efforts notwithstanding).
You mentioned specific passages, Genesis 36:31-39 for example, do you have a
list of Moabite ...
... kings telling their chronology in a way that can be corrolated with our
modern calandar? If not, why can't this list be one of kings that reigned
before Moses? ...
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