Biblical Hebrew Forum

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Hypothesis: Jacob was a contemporary of Lab'aya and Hamor.

Common topic: Shechem in the 14th and 13th centuries.


- Lab'aya gave up the land of Shechem to the Habiru.

-  Jacob took Shechem by "his sword and his bow."

- Hamor the Hurrian ruled Shechem.

- Hamor's son was named Shechem.

- Hurrian names are attested at El Amarna.

- Some Hurrian chieftains ruled cities.

- Hamor is a Semitic name.

- Semitic Hurrians were ruled by an Indo-European aristocracy.

- Shechem suffered destruction in the era intersecting with Lab'aya.

-  Lab'aya and Akhenaten were contemporaries.

- Hamor and Jacob are portrayed as contemporaries.

- Lab'aya gave up Shechem.

- Jacob seized Shechem by force.

- Joshua reportedly too possession of Shechem without conflict.









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L.M. Barre
http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/AncientIsrael
Point Loma, California