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  • From: peter_kirk AT sil.org
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Rohl (Dave)
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:55:34 -0400


I just want to clarify the point re the Millo, "vast stone terracing
system" (Rohl) or fill which Kenyon discovered in Jerusalem. Rohl
quotes Kenyon as follows: "There was not a great deal in the way of
finds in the fill, but there was enough pottery, including a few
sherds of Mycenaean ware and White Slip II milkbowls, to show that the
date is c. 14th century BC." (referenced as Kenyon, PEQ 95 (1963)
p.13). Rohl comments that the dating of this pottery has since been
refined as Amenhotep III to Haremheb. Are you (or is Kenyon) now
trying to redate this find to 7th-6th century? Or are you talking
about a different discovery?

By the way, you are wasting your time trying to underpin correlations
between Egyptian kings and the Sea Peoples as Rohl does not question
these, only implicitly the identification of the Biblical Philistines
as the Sea Peoples. We have evidence from the Amarna letters for an
Indo-European people in Gath, Ashdod etc who also tried to establish
rule over the central hills. Presumably these are not your famous Sea
Peoples. Who can be sure (apart from a detailed look at chronology)
which (if either) are the Biblical Philistines?

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Rohl (Dave)
Author: <mc2499 AT mclink.it> at Internet
Date: 29/09/1999 16:41

<snip>

..It seems to me that it merely takes advantage of the obscurity of the
range of evidence for the status quo, physical data found in the works of
Kathleen Kenyon, W.F.Albright and Gosta Ahlstrom, stratum upon stratum of
continuous archaeological evidence -- the movement of Sea People's pottery
in specifically Philistine areas from the coastal plain up into the more
mountainous regions, as shown by stratigraphy, well before the
archaeological period of the Millo (in fact the only evidence for the Millo
comes from the 7th - 6th centuries, Kenyon p237).

<snip>





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