Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Isn't that what I said in the first place? If that's what Karl meant, then I 
certainly agree.

Yigal
----- Original Message ----- 
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>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Benjamin


> On 26/06/2006 21:55, Yigal Levin wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > 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.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
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