One more minor correction Re: More on Turkels latest (Part 5)
Achilles achillesz@usa.net
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:49:41 -0500 (00917938181, 00472613704663@unifour.com)
Thanks to Jason Filley, who just pointed out that Turkels G1 is of the
Priestly, not the Elohist, layer (a point I was unclear on.)
>Achilles
> haven't seen him do this, have you?) - if the JEDP hypothesis is correct,
> then G2 and G1 were written by different men, in different settings, at
> different times and for different purposes. If that is the case, then it
> is even more senseless and, yes, I will even say arrogant, for Turkel to
> castigate the poor fellow who wrote this for failing to anticipate G1 and
> harmonize his account with it, when G1 had not even been written yet, and
> would not be for around 110 years!
Should read "would not be for around 340 years!"
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