Karl:
Prior to the Iron Age, the amount of alphabetical pre-Hebrew writing is
tiny. Yes, it existed, but it was rare and in a rudimentary developmental
stage. There’s no way that the glorious, lengthy, detailed, truly ancient
Patriarchal narratives could have been recorded by a contemporary of the
events using alphabetical pre-Hebrew writing in the Bronze Age. Not.
I have provided the “missing link” to get us from the 7th century BCE
classic Hebrew alphabetical narrative prose of the received text way back to
the Bronze Age, via a writing by a contemporary [that is, a written account
commissioned by one of the tent-dwelling first Hebrews]. That “missing link
” is using cuneiform, à la the Amarna Letters, to write west Semitic words
in the Late Bronze Age Patriarchal Age.
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois
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