I'm glad we are broadly in agreement, Karl. As for the following:
Well, I'm not convinced, but then I've not researched it. As a gut feeling I think it unlikely that eight hundred years of often violent political and social change would leave no trace on the language bar style. But it's hard to see phonetic changes through our nicely normalized Massoritic text, and as for semantic change... Anyway, I've never looked at the Hebrew in that detail. John Leake ---------------------------------- ان صاحب حياة هانئة لا يدونها انما يحياها He who has a comfortable life doesn't write about it - he lives it ----------------------------------
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