Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

Peter Kirk wrote:

> >
> Maybe the articles are unreliable, but are you disputing "Ugarit was 
> at its height about 1450 BC to 1200 BC", or the dating of most of the 
> surviving texts to the last part of that period? I know that some e.g. 
> David Rohl prefer a later date, with the final collapse around 1000 
> BC, but surely Wikipedia here reflects the scholarly consensus. 


My warning was more general in nature and concerned the use of Wikipedia 
as a source for accurate information.  It is the "DaVinci Code of online 
Encyclopedia" with all manner of malcontents and dilettantes free to 
write and post whatever they imagine.  Readers should simply be careful 
using it.  There are, to be sure, useful and accurate articles on it.  
But one should definitely not cite it as the same level of authority one 
would cite Britannica, for instance.

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Jim West

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