Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George Athas" <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>]

> 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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