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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Benjamin
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:05:57 +0100

On 26/06/2006 21:55, Yigal Levin wrote:
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Where I don't think that I agree with you is when your state that "they assume that any name that is also reported in Tanakh therefore refers to a Biblical individual is a de facto denial that names may have been reused by ancient, Semitic peoples".

Do you mean that anyone who thinks that "Abraham" was a real person automatically denies that there may have been other, unrelated, people who were also named "Abraham"? Why?

Surely Karl's point is that some people pounce on any reference to (for example) a name which might be "Abraham", in any kind of ANE inscription, and jump to conclusions either that this is proof that the biblical Abraham existed (on the conservative side) or proof that the biblical Abraham story is a garbled tale about someone who lived somewhere else at a different time (on the liberal side) - without considering that this might have been a different individual of more or less the same name. Of course these alleged Benjaminites, from a very different place and time from the biblical Benjaminites, are an excellent example of this kind of reasoning.

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Peter Kirk
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