Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

> 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