>>> De: Uri Hurwitz <[email protected]> Data: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:35:31 -0800 (PST)
>>> Why don't check the Ketef Hinom Silver Amulet, its content, and its date? uri, thanks for your enlightening info which is new to me. the dating i got from wikipedia is around 600 BC, and it seems to be the earliest known biblical text. i agree with you that this is (marginally) 1st temple. AND, it is written in hebrew characters. so, my general claim is still pretty much correct: any discussion about biblical text written in cuneiform before 600BC is sheer speculation at this point. this is for jim, taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketef_Hinnom : Dr. Wayne Pitard has stated that although evidence for the antiquity of the Priestly Blessing is now compelling, this does not necessarily mean that the Book of Numbers already existed at that time.[5] Dr. James R. Davila has similarly pointed out that the idea that the scrolls are "proof that the Five Books of Moses were in existence during the First Temple period" (as described in an article in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz) is "an overinterpretation of the evidence." He nonetheless acknowledged that the find proves that at least "some of the material found in the Five Books of Moses existed in the First Temple period."[7] _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
