Balancing the Argument

Recently I posted links to some article reviews on using linguistics to date the OT. The following review is of an article that seeks to defend the position that much of the Classical Biblical Hebrew (CBH) texts are written during the Persian period and later. The main point of contention is that a literary dialect can extend past is use as a spoken dialect. In other words, scribes can continue to write in one form of Hebrew while they speak a different form. The article cites other languages that does this as well, such as Greek and Latin. This poses one challenge I had to the using linguistics for dating (typology for chronology model) but never asked. Again, I wish I had the $$$ to get this journal to read. It sounds amazing. Enjoy the review.

בלשנות: balshanut: Resources for the study of the Bible and Linguistics: Davies, Philip R, “Biblical Hebrew and the History of Ancient Judah: Typology, Chronology, and Common Sense,” Pages 150-163 in Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology Edited by Ian Young. London: T&T Clark, 2003.