Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

> The El Amarna letters describe Lab'ayu as surrendering Shechem, while Gen 
> 48:23 states
> that Jacob took it by "his sword and bow," agreeing with the archaeological 
> data that
the city
> suffered destruction.  To whom did Lab'aya surrender the city?  Hamor of 
> the habiru.

This is a very big jump over a chasm with no bridge. We have no firm and 
compelling reason
to associate a Jacob personage with the time immediately after Lab'aya. We 
have even less
reason to associate Hamor with it. Where did we dig Hamor out of the ground?

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