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Dr Chajes shows a lot of restraint in not clearly mentioning that none of this stuff actually works, but maybe that goes without saying. This thread (from 2015) goes into a little depth on this topic - The History and Origin of the Shem haMephorash http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&am...

Being a chiasm may only mean that a single author created that structure. That author could easily have used material from more than one source, as the author of the Noah's-Flood story apparently did. The Noah chiasm is interesting but I'm not sure it means a whole lot. Chiasmus seems to be more of...

...By the 6th century BC, Jews left Israel to go to Babylon, Armenia and Egypt... As for the Sabbath, the Jews of Elephantine DID keep the Sabbath by this time. That almost sounds true and it's cool how authoritative you make it seem. You probably are referring to the four times ostraca from Elepha...

Byblos,

Do you and Ethan inhabit the same vessel?

Servant reading must be unique too the KJV, the Septuagint render the Hebrew as παιδάριον "little children" , παιδ "child" or νεᾶν "young, youthful" I think the most famous naar - servant example is - Then Abraham said to his servants, "You stay here with the ass....

Why does Spanish resemble Hebrew grammar? 1 Kings 1:4 - And the Damsel U E NORE ( ו ה נערה) Y la joven ( Spanish) *RVR60 καὶ ἡ νεᾶνις I noticed from a reply in another thread that you have an admirer. I wanted to discuss ‎נַעֲרָ֣ה - naarah - girl; as you discussed the male form of this ‎ נַ֗עַר - n...

Probably it is important to understand the Samaritan_Pentateuch (which I don't) Modern scholarship connects the formation of the Samaritan community with events which followed the Babylonian Captivity. The schism has to happen after the Pentateuch is known, which can be pretty much no earlier than t...

I'm starting to wonder where/when/how the Samaritans fit into all of this. One would think that you would have started wondering about them when you compiled your impressive notes about Ezra on pages 6-7 of this thread. Had someone else done those, it would have been shocking to see that not a sing...

...Take my TV, for example (which I bought used at a thrift store for five bucks six years ago and is still going strong ... I sympathize with that, and wonder if your understanding of the bible is also mid 20th century earth. Take the sacrificial stuff. I also used to think that everything had to ...

Almah ‎ עַלְמָ֗ה means "young woman". It's a polite term, I like to think that it is the opposite of slut. However, your interpretation of Exodus 2:8 does not fill me with admiration. And Pharaoh's daughter answered, "Yes." So the girl went and called the child's mother. (Exod. 2...