Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-Exilic Date of the Yahwistic Source. By Richard M. Wright
This is a slightly revised Ph.D. thesis that was completed at Cornell University in 1998 under Gary A. Rendsburg as the principal adviser. The book is framed as a response to recent proponents of the view that the Yahwist or J source of the Pentateuch was composed in the exilic or post-exilic period...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 605-609 |
Review of: | Linguistic evidence for the pre-exilic date of the Yahwistic source (London [u.a.] : T & T Clark International, 2005) (Rezetko, Robert)
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Summary: | This is a slightly revised Ph.D. thesis that was completed at Cornell University in 1998 under Gary A. Rendsburg as the principal adviser. The book is framed as a response to recent proponents of the view that the Yahwist or J source of the Pentateuch was composed in the exilic or post-exilic period rather than the (early) pre-exilic period, as many biblical scholars have traditionally believed (pp. 1–3, 162–3). Wright's purpose is to examine the language of the J source in the light of current understanding of the historical development of Biblical Hebrew (BH) in order to demonstrate that the J source was (most likely) a product of the pre-exilic period (pp. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp080 |