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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Tadmor
  • Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 07:29:01 -0700



> > But this is only possible if the two Tadmors are the same. How do
> > you account for the Assyrian annals and the Tadmor they
> > describe? It seems to me that you're dodging this little problem.
> > To warrant this kind of mention by the Assyrians, it seems to me
> > that Tadmor would have had to be more than a nomadic campsite,
> > so I strongly suspect the site that the excavators have been
> > working on is not the same Tadmor mentioned by these records
> > (and by Chronicles).
> >
> >
> > Dave Washburn
> >
> It is not really necessary to jumb around in this old fashioned way.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Walter took a verse from
Chronicles mentioning Tadmor, an excavated site apparently called
Tadmor from the first century BCE, and assumed they must refer
to the same site. Why isn't this "jumping around" as well? There's
a ton of assumption in operation here, a fact that seems pretty
evident to me.

> If the archaeology of a place mentioned in the Bible does not fit the
> biblical periodizagtion, move the place to another place or ask for more
> places, that's the usual game and it has been tried over and over again. And
> again, Tadmor is mentioned already by Tiglat-Pileser I (end of 12th
> century), so what do you demand? It is a place in Amurru, and seems to be
> pretty consistent. As a matter of fact, it is the only oasis of any
> importance if you want to cross the Syrian desert and take the direct route
> from Mesopotamia to, say Damascus. There is no indication that there ever
> was a second one, only the wish that the Bible must also here be
> historically true, and that is even possible, simply because the time of
> Tiglath-Pileser I predates the traditional dating of Solomon by about a 150
> years.

Niels, why do you persist in being deliberately antagonistic and
borderline derogatory like this? My view of the Bible has nothing to
do with it, I gave no indication that it did, and you are clearly
projecting your own anti-biblical bias into my post. I don't
appreciate it. I asked a simple question about the link Walter
proposed, and asked for more information about the Tadmor
mentioned by the Assyrians. I didn't attack anybody's views about
historicity or anything else, I asked a methodological question. It
would do much for the discussion if others would confine
themselves to the same process instead of making this kind of slur
about (what is perceived as) someone else's belief system.


Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11



  • RE: Tadmor, Niels Peter Lemche, 02/26/2000
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • RE: Tadmor, Dave Washburn, 02/27/2000
    • Tadmor, Walter Mattfeld, 02/27/2000
    • RE: Tadmor, Niels Peter Lemche, 02/27/2000
    • Tadmor, Walter Mattfeld, 02/28/2000

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