Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Banyai AT t-online.de (Michael Banyai)]

Peter Kirk wrote:

> Thank you for your helpful reply. But can you explain this one? Where do 
> this date and the 7-daru period come from?

The 7-daru period is attested for the assyro-babylonian world and analysed in 
the CAH by Hildegard Levy (Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 1, part 2 (1971) “ 
Assyria c. 2600-1816 BCE”, Hildegard Lewy, pp. 740-741 and 761).

I was able to recognise this period of 350-years as calculated between two 
temple-dedications clearly for the late Israelite period and was able to 
demonstrate, despite the garbled nature of the early Israelite chronology, 
its existence for earlier periods too.

One could therefore theoretically assume, that some activities at the time of 
Joshua in Schechem, if historical, which clearly have a dedicatory character, 
where perceived by the people of the time, as following some previous 
temple-dedication - which was attributed by tradition to Abraham. In that 
case would have one in the time of Joshua have reckoned a 7-daru period till 
Abrahams reign.

According to my chronological reconstruction was Joshua active in Schechem 
around 1594 BC, the Exodus having been 1622 BC. The data concerning the 
patriarchs is certainly garbled, but such central events, like the dedication 
of a temple (look the long memory of the Assyrian when concerning such 
central questions) - who did it, who was involved - where object of a 
continuous tradition. We the knowledge of the 7-daru period in the hand, one 
could get a schematical view of chronology.

Best regards,

Bányai Michael
Stuttgart
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In a message dated 8/19/2004 8:14:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
rosewalk AT concentric.net writes:


> I didn't take Marianne's statement as belittling the law, I thought I was
> AGREEING with Marianne, til she got so angry at me......

I'm not angry with you, Shoshanna.  I just come from another perspective,
that's all.
But I come in peace, nevertheless.