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- Title: Some False Leads in the Identification of Late Biblical Hebrew Texts: The Cases of Genesis 24 and 1 Samuel 2:27-36.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2002
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 254 KB
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One of the major achievements in the modern study of the Bible and the Hebrew language is the capacity for scholars to distinguish between Standard Biblical Hebrew (SBH) and Late Biblical Hebrew (LBH). Major strides in this direction were made already in the nineteenth century, (1) while more solid philological work in the twentieth century elevated the discussion to even firmer ground. (2) The identification of late biblical texts is often quite obvious. Books such as Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles, Esther, Daniel, Qohelet, Haggai, Zechariah, and some others clearly date from the Persian period (or, in the case of Daniel, from the Hellenistic period). Occasionally the evidence is less obvious, but given the strong foundation of the SBH-LBH dichotomy, scholars have sought to expand the size of the late biblical corpus by identifying selected texts elsewhere in the Bible as exilic or postexilic compositions. This paper will have a look at two such attempts, with the hope of demonstrating that the learned authors who have made these specific proposals have been misled by some false leads.