jim, i do not necessarily agree with your tracing the amarna texts to specific hebrew influence. it is quite possible that SR, LBYT, BNT were used in tyre as well as in jerusalem. in fact, LBYT may indicate an earlier stratum, since -YT is a general semitic ending.
>>> I tentatively conclude from that small sample size that Amarna Age Canaanite and Iron Age Judah classic Biblical Hebrew essentially shared the same vocabulary. ALL the nws dialects used in canaan shared a common vocabulary. KPR, BWR, $DH, YM, THWM, (C, YYN, YLD/WLD, BYT, KWKB, $MYM, KLB, )B, )M, WSB/Y$B, )KL, )X, BN, BT/BNT, $M$, (BD etc etc. -------------------- notwithstanding, your basic conclusion that yoshiahu was able to read hebrew text written 700 years earlier seems very plausible. nir cohen _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
