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Uzi wrote:
“I know that these are the patriarchal narratives…but the prophetic writings were probably composed not too long after….”
Jim wrote:
Hello, hello? How can you say such a thing?
The Patriarchal narratives are much, much older than the rest of the Bible.
1. The Hurrians began to go extinct in the second half of the 14th century
BCE, and were long forgotten by the time the rest of the Bible was
composed.
narratives: $N‘R, )RYWK, BR(, BR%(, $M)BR, $N)B, HCCN TMR, (PRWN, )YLWN, and B)RY.***
Those are vintage Late Bronze Age Hurrian names that would have been
incomprehensible to all later Biblical authors. (No wonder $N‘R later got mixed
up by later Biblical authors with Sumer, even though there’s no linguistic
match to Sumer, and $N‘R at Genesis 14: 1 is referring to Syria, not to
Babylonia or southern Mesopotamia.)
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