Re: [tied] Almost NO Indian or Iranian scholars active in IE lingui

does he descirbe it in present tense as poetry?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> >If a Rig
> > Vedic verse describes an ocean going river in the present tense that
> > ceased to be that way around 3000 BCE as geologist have conformed,
> > every single word in that verse must be older than that date.
>
> No. Homer describes a bronze age helmet, but his verses are very
much later
> than the helmet. The oral tradition about the helmet survived. The
> Hebrew Bible describes a whole bunch of stuff, some of which may be
> historical, but it does not mean the Hebrew was actually written at
the date
> it is talking about. The oral traditions survive.
>
> Peter