Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Michael,

> while I would not accept the judgement of Kitchen on the whole (the 
> Midianites/Kushites where dwelling among the Edomites as we well 
> know - so he might err in the fine detail) I am interested about the 
> context of the statement.
>
> Habakuk is exactly one of the sources to identify Midian with Kush/Kushan.

HH: The statements about Kushu were in Kitchen's new book, _On the 
Reliability of the Old Testament_. You could just check its index for 
"Kushu."

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard