> ... To compare,
> you do not have a version of the Torah from 1400 BCE.
> You have a book attested in the last few centuries BCE.
> If you claim that the internal dates allow you to date this
> book (Torah) back from 300 BCE to 1400 BCE, then
> perhaps the Ugaritic inscriptions could be dated back
> by the internal dates from 1400 BCE to 2500 BCE!
Don't be ridiculous!
> The real problem is that you make claims and statements
> knowing nothing about Ugarit, or Ugaritic, and even
> refusing to try to study Ugaritic because, well, you
> already know it can't help you.
>
The main reason I don't study it is time constraints.
I didn't answer you last time because of the
moderators who said not to, but now that you bring
it up again ...
First of all, the stone that we referenced was
found geographically separated from Safaitic sites,
in northern Jordan while Safaitic inscriptions are
found in southern Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Secondly, it was found without a historical context
from which we can date it, making the only dating
possible based on epigraphic studies.
Thirdly, while the epigraphy shows some similarities
to southern Semitic writings, particularly the bet and
resh, it also has great differences from Safaitic
writings in the letters used, e.g. the URL below,
while showing similarities to proto-Sinaitic.
The conclusion based on archeological, epigraphic
and linguistic analysis says that that is not a
Safaitic inscription.
> Besides, your theoretical situation misrepresents the
> way linguists work. Given a document, linguists can
> associate the document with known sets of data,
> based on script, orthography, and language. Each of
> these sets of data is large, not a single document, and
> the language of this set can be compared with others to
> determine if the languages are related and how. In any
> case, none of this relates to the "internal date" of the
> Torah.
You claim that the data sets are large. Prove it.
In order to dismiss the internally attested to date
of a document based on linguistic data, looking at
how the language changed, you need to have many
extensive documents totaling multiple hundreds if
not thousands of words each century. Where is the
list of such documentation for Biblical Hebrew? Eh?
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