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Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-exilic Date of the Yahwistic Source (Library Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies) 1. udgave
Rick Wright
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Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-exilic Date of the Yahwistic Source (Library Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies) 1. udgave
Rick Wright
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.
Medie | Bøger Hardcover bog (Bog med hård ryg og stift omslag) |
Udgivet | 30. juni 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9780567041210 |
Forlag | Bloomsbury T&T Clark |
Antal sider | 220 |
Mål | 156 × 244 × 22 mm · 476 g |
Sprog | Engelsk |