Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

Dear Lloyd,

"If... if... if... if... if... if... if... then might we not 
suspect..." seems like a formula for totally unsupported speculations. 
I would contest many of the statements after the if's. No doubt some 
are true, but your argument relies on them all being true although 
there is absolutely no evidence for some of them.

I don't know how relevant this is, but in 1 Chronicles 2:24, 42-55, 
4:1-23, 8:29 (English numbering) there are several cases of people 
being named as "father" of a town name (see NIV footnotes). This is 
often understood as them being the chiefs or traditional founders of 
those towns. But it could mean that they named their sons after the 
towns.

Peter Kirk



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Subject: Dating Jacob
Author:  <barre AT access1.com> at Internet
Date:    06/02/2000 14:20


Dear List,

If the argument is viable that Shechem was named after the conquest of his 
fathe
r, and if that
conquest was directed toward the disloyal Lab'aya, and if Jacob was a 
contempora
ry 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 
co
ntain 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 w
e 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 
som
eone
being named after a city?

Thank you.

LMB




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L.M. Barre
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