Counting and Weighing: On the Role of Intuition in Philology and Linguistics: Linguistic and Philological Perspectives: Papers forming part of the 2017 and 2018 SBL Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Seminar

Martin Ehrensvärd; Robert Rezetko; Ian Young

doi:10.25159/2663-6573/8180

Counting and Weighing: On the Role of Intuition in Philology and Linguistics

Linguistic and Philological Perspectives: Papers forming part of the 2017 and 2018 SBL Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Seminar

Authors

Martin Ehrensvärd University of Copenhagen, Denmark https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1468-6264
Robert Rezetko Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands & University of Sydney, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2606-6182
Ian Young University of Sydney, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-899X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6573/8180

Keywords:

philology and linguistics, intuition in science, Thomas Kuhn

Abstract

The intuition of established scholars often holds them back from appreciating revolutionary advances in the understanding of how biblical texts evolved and how to view their language in that context. Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shifts helps elucidate the current debate regarding the linguistic dating theories of Avi Hurvitz and others. We discuss these linguistic dating theories and use Richard Friedman’s book on the exodus as an example of the old paradigm. We then juxtapose it with the emerging paradigm that is founded on more robust data collection and analysis.

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Published

2020-12-08

How to Cite

Ehrensvärd, Martin, Robert Rezetko, and Ian Young. 2020. “Counting and Weighing: On the Role of Intuition in Philology and Linguistics: Linguistic and Philological Perspectives: Papers Forming Part of the 2017 and 2018 SBL Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Seminar”. Journal for Semitics 29 (2):10 pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6573/8180.