Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

Thank you, Ian. I agree that Rohl's name identifications are 
speculative and prove little. But, leaving aside the matters of names 
and of absolute dates, there is still Rohl's basic thesis identifying 
the Canaan of the books of Samuel with that of the Amarna age. I have 
already tried to make that work. It is now up to others to falisfy 
this. Can you do so? Note that to falsify a hypothesis you need to do 
more than cast doubt on the evidence in its favour; you need to 
produce evidence which clearly contradicts it. That evidence I have 
not yet seen.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Stop with the Rohl material.
Author:  <mc2499 AT mclink.it> at Internet
Date:    11/02/2000 19:00

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Try and make Rohl's theories work based on the data that we have from 
Mesopotamia read in the context of the Amarna letters providing a solid 
synchronization between the Amarna age and Ashur-uballit I & Burna-buriash II.


Ian