We appreciate Aaron Hornkohl’s contribution and the opportunity to engage these questions. We hope to respond more fully in the near future, addressing not only the specific claims at issue here but also the broader methodological issues involved, especially the viability of linguistic dating vis-à-vis historical linguistics, the precondition of source analysis, and the nature of genuine integration among literary, textual, and linguistic approaches.
We appreciate Aaron Hornkohl’s contribution and the opportunity to engage these questions. We hope to respond more fully in the near future, addressing not only the specific claims at issue here but also the broader methodological issues involved, especially the viability of linguistic dating vis-à-vis historical linguistics, the precondition of source analysis, and the nature of genuine integration among literary, textual, and linguistic approaches.