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  • From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>
  • To: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
  • Cc: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: SV: Re[2]: Ur Kasdim II
  • Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 20:52:33 +0200




Niels Peter Lemche wrote:

> But you cannot do that in light of present evidence. You have to postulate
> such a connection, and if the people who rather looks in the direction of an
> Arabic background of the Chaldeans are right, it will be hard to argue in
> favour of this cinnection--in spite of Manfred Dietrich.
>

I thought the theory of waves of Semitic-speaking peoples emerging from the
Arabian Deserts was discredited long ago.
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Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
44905 Beit Berl Post Office
Israel






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