Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Or could it perhaps be a tent-city leaving no solid traces, like the 
city recently discussed mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions so many 
centuries before the earliest archaeological traces?

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Dating the Pentateuch, Exodus Enigmas
Author:  <npl AT teol.ku.dk> at Internet
Date:    22/03/2000 08:47

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.. The only necessary thing in order to mention Heshbon in a literary piece 
of work is that this Heshbon must have existed as the name of a place, 
whether a ruin or a still thrieving and inhabited place. So you cannot 
really use this kind of material for dating except as a terminus a quo.

        NPL