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Friday, July 18, 2025

Longacre on Hornkohl on linguistic dating of biblical Hebrew

THE OTTC BLOG: Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew.
I just saw that Aaron Hornkohl has published an open-access book on Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew, where he argues that we can see diachronic indications even within the corpus of Classical Biblical Hebrew. He suggests that, on balance, the Pentateuch reflects an earlier stage of Hebrew than the early prophets et al.

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Drew Longacre offers some text-critical thoughts about this recent book.

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