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  • From: "George Athas" <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Dating Jacob
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 09:27:01 +1100


> If the argument is viable that Shechem was named after the conquest of his
> father, and
if that
> conquest was directed toward the disloyal Lab'aya, and if Jacob was a
> contemporary of
both
> Lab'aya and Hamor the Hurrian (Hivite), and if Lab'aya can be dated to
> 1370-1350 as a
> reliable source has informed me, and if it is true that the El Amarna
> letters contain
several
> Hurrian names, and if these names mostly designate "petty kings" such as
> Hamor, then may
> we not with requisite caution date Jacob's fighting days to 1370-1350? And
> if we can
place
> both Hamor and Jacob among the nefarious habiru, then might we not suspect
> that the
> Amarna climate also attracted Abram the Hebrew? Can anyone cite examples
> of someone
> being named after a city?

A chain of six or seven different "if" clauses doesn't make for much
certainty by the end.

Best regards,
George Athas
Dept of Semitic Studies,
University of Sydney
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