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- Subject: More on Shechem
- Date: 06 Feb 2000 01:11:56 -0800
As Jacob was not originally a part of the Abrahamic line, we must remove him from our relative chronology and date him independently. One of the El Amarna letters states that Labayu had given up Shechem. This may well be the Hivites to whom Hamor belonged. It is also possible that Hamor himself took the city, explaining why he so proudly named his son after it. With regard to the fate of Shechem, the Labayu-- Hamor--Jacob sequence allows us to relatively date Jacob's migration from Aram to this generation as a contemporary of Labayu (before he was killed by the people of Gina) and of Hamor. Therefore Jacob's migration from Aram and his presence in northern Palestine may be syncretized with Hamor's seizure of Shechem from Labayu in the Amarna era. --------------------------- L.M. Barre www.angelfire.com/ca2/AncientIsrael Point Loma, California |
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