Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

"Reality"? Based on what? Either you take the biblical text at face value,
or you apply some critical method. Where do you get "Amoritic tribal leader"
from, or the date of "nearly a thousand years before Akhenaten" (which would
be around 2400 BCE), or that his faith was "that of the Amorites of his
time"? For that matter, WHAT Amorites in 2400 BCE? Assuming that the
biblical "Emori" (Amorites) have anything to do with the ANE Amurru, they
only appear a few centuries later.

Yigal

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
To: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>; "b-hebrew"
<b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Akhenaten and Hebrew religion


> Then there's the third possibility - reality.   Abraham was an Amoritic
> tribal leader who ranged between Syria and Mesopotamia and Palestine
nearly
> a thousand years before Akhenaten, and his faith was that of the Amorites
of
> his time.
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, Texas
> villandra AT austin.rr.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
> To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 11:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Akhenaten and Hebrew religion
>
>
> >
> > Excuse me Harold, but just how do you know when Abraham lived in
relation
> to
> > Akhenaten?
> >
> > As far as the issue itself, there are two possibilities:
> > 1. Abraham was a true monotheist, just like the Bible says. In this
case,
> it
> > is improbable that he was influenced by Akhenaten, who was far from
being
> a
> > monotheist.
> >
> > 2. Whoever the "historical" Abraham was, the biblical character of
Abraham
> > is mostly a creation of later Israelite/Judean writers. In this case,
the
> > question is, what influence did the short lived "Amarna Revolution" have
> on
> > the eventual development of monotheism in Israel/Judah. My position
would
> > be - none.
> >
> > Yigal
>
>
>