Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Michael and Chris,

Please read my previous posts on the subject. Let's not repeat ourselves.

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Banyai" <Banyai AT t-online.de>
To: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Amalekites exist OUTSIDE the scripture sources???


> I beg your pardon Yigal, but your response
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> > I repeat what I said before. There is NO reference to the Amalekites
outside
> > the Bible.
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> is in perfect contradiction with historical facts. You should know this
better. Since I have dealt with the problem on large, I have no ground to
bring once more this evidence to your memory. They are everywhere between
Assyrian annals, Ptolemy, and Kuranic tradition, which has as last living
mention them expelled from Arabia and specially from Mekka/Medinah by
Mohammed. This is the same region they where mentioned by the few late
antique sources concerning Arabia.
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> Best regards,
>
> Bányai Michael
> Stuttgart
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