Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

>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?

Bill, if the Arthurian legends can preserve something from the Gilgamesh 
narratives,
don't you think it's possible that the biblical accounts can preserve 
something from
1200 BCE? Our problem is to find ways based in factual data from the relevant 
period
(such for example as the data relevant to the sea peoples who ended up on the 
coast
of Palestine) which can contribute to the extraction of what we can get out 
of such
texts. Without the external hard data, how can we proceed?


Ian