Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

Actually, we have precisely this kind of material for all of those of 
the surrounding cultures which left this kind of evidence, and we have 
no such evidence for many other cultures which are known to exist from 
material evidence or from chance mentions in inscriptions made by 
others. Where are the inscriptions from the countless smaller kingdoms 
swallowed up by the Assyrians and Babylonians? Am I not right in 
thinking that it was only a few mega-powers - Egypt, Assyria, Babylon 
- which left extensive monumental inscriptions? Otherwise, we seem to 
have only a very few isolated ones.

If you think that I am mistaken, please give me a list of which 
Ancient Near Eastern cultures of the 10th-7th centuries BCE have left 
surviving monumental inscriptions. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, one from 
Moab, one possible forgery from Tel Dan, where else?

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: historiography
Author:  <jwest AT Highland.Net> at Internet
Date:    01/01/2000 12:00

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This would be extremely unique wouldn't it?  We have precisely this kind of 
material for all of the surrounding cultures, but none for Israel- which 
reached great expanse during the "Solomonic" era.... (according to the DH). 
That is just so odd that it requires some significant consideration, it 
seems to me.

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