Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bill Rea <cctr114 AT it.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Ian wrote:-

[snip]
>So we have a shipfaring people with a name of Denyen/Danuna/Danai, who
>just so happened to find themselves on basically the same coast around
>the same time, as the only biblically attested "southern Dan", who have
>no background according to the only sources to justify their connection
>with ships or the coast.
[snip]

Sock it to me! Do I understand you correctly? Are really saying that
within the Biblical texts there is a historical memory which dates
back to around 1200BC? 

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