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  • From: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
  • To: 'Jonathan Bailey' <jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de>
  • Cc: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Re[6]: Habiru and Joshua
  • Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:21:59 +0100


> My question, after all the blather from Dr. Barré, remains the same. Is
> there any
> indication from Amarna, the Bible, Egyptian records, Assyrian/Babylonian
> literature,
> etc. which prevents the Habiru invasion of the Amarna letters from being a
> 14th
> century conquest of the area by Joshua consumated in the following
> generation?
> Could it be that Amarna does not mention Israelites because the Amarna
> Akkadian/Canaanite word for "Israelite" is "Hebrew"/"Habiru"? Could it be
> that
> Philistines are not mentioned in Amarna because that is just not what they
> called
> themselves? If these two "can it be"s are answerable in the affirmative,
> then do the
> records of the conquests and peoples from Amarna line up with the accounts
> in
> Joshua and Judges?
>
Thus Jonathan Bailey

Only that there was no habiru invasion during the Amarna period.

NPL




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