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Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-exilic Date of the Yahwistic Source (Hardcover)
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Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-exilic Date of the Yahwistic Source (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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For the past few decades a growing number of scholars have
attempted to overthrow the traditional Wellhausian view that the
so-called 'Yahwist' or 'J' source of the Pentateuch is the oldest
of the four major sources. These scholars have argued that J was
composed during the exilic or post-exilic periods of ancient
Israel. Their arguments have focused on the literary,
historiographic, and theological characteristics of 'J'. This book
attempts to re-evaluate on linguistic grounds such efforts to place
the Yahwist source in the exilic or post-exilic periods. The study
employs the methodology developed most prominently by Avi Hurvitz
for identifying characteristic features of post-exilic Hebrew
('Late Biblical Hebrew'). This divides the language of the Hebrew
Bible into three main chronological stages: Archaic Biblical Hebrew
(ABH), Standard Biblical Hebrew (SBH), and Late Biblical Hebrew
(LBH). Wright examines 40 features of J for which useful
comparisons can be made to LBH and finds no evidence of LBH in the
entire Yahwist source. Therefore it is unlikely that J was composed
during the post-exilic period. Moreover since Hurvitz has shown
that the exilic period was a time of transition between SBH and LBH
such that late features began to occur in exilic texts, the author
concludes on linguistic grounds that J was most likely composed
during the pre-exilic period of ancient Israel.
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