Hi Nir, On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:43:21 -0200, "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <[email protected]> wrote: > chavoux, jim, > > to the best of my knowledge, the proto-sianic alphabet was invented at > about 2000 bc. all the evidence indicates that it was used mainly > on animal skins. animal skins are not as durable as clay tablets. > > akkadian, yes, was used in the region, but only in political-economical > documents between leaders. not, as far as i know, for any religeous > purposes. > > now, if we assume that the hebrews did keep a written version of their > history and faith, which (so far) is just a supposition, i'd rather suppose > that it was written in proto-sinaic on animal skins than that it was written > in akkadian. for many reasons, starting with the fact that nobody spoke > akkadian in the region except one or two scribes.
To be fair, I think you misunderstand what Jim is proposing. Although he refers to "Akkadian cuneiform", I think what he means is that the narrative was written in "cuneiform", i.e., Canaanite/Hebrew written in cuneiform script, not Akkadian written in cuneiform. (Jim can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's *my* understanding.) After all, cuneiform was invented for representing Sumerian, and ended up being used to represent quite a variety of other languages apart from Akkadian. -- William Parsons μη φαινεσθαι, αλλ' ειναι. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
