Re: [tied] Re: Elohim

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Elohim
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> > isn't Job the oldest book of the Bible or
> something like that?
>
> I'm not an expert, but yes, I remember reading it's
> believed to be "pre-Mosaic" (late 2nd millennium
> BC?) at any rate. At the same time, it has a
> distinctly foreign flavour and contains numerous
> Arabisms and Aramaisms. Perhaps the characteristic
> word for "God" is one of them.
>
> Piotr

*****GK: Here is what my trustworthy "Bible de
Jerusalem" (p. 600. col. 1) has to say about this:

"Le livre est posterieure a Jeremie at a Ezechiel,avec
lesquels il a des contacts d'expression et de pensee,
et sa langue est fortement teintee d'aramaismes. Cela
nous reporte apres l'Exil, a un moment ou l'obsession
du sort de la nation fait place au souci des destinees
individuelles. La date la plus indiquee, mais sans
raisons decisives, est le debut du Ve siecle avant
notre ere." ******

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