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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Respose canaanites and Language etc. and Suggested Reading
  • Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:17:43 -0500

Joel Stucki wrote:

There is no text outside the Tanakh that supports the existence of the
people and events described in it before the Monarchy. None at all.
Please list even one reference to such a text. The works you cite
(while I am not familiar with all of them) give contextual clues and
supporting arguments of how the story could have fit inside the known
history of the ancient world. They may also point out places in the
text where events described match nicely with what is known about the
time and place described. But this is only evidence that what they
describe could have happened, not evidence that it did happen.

For the record I believe in the general historicity of the Tanakh. I
would love nothing more than for someone to unearth a copy of the
Torah from 1200 BCE. Such a find would shake the world even more than
the DSS. I would love for someone to find Egyptian records of Moshe,
the exodus and the plagues. But alas these records have not been found
and the support for the biblical claims rests entirely on faith.



HH: I don't know how absolutely you are speaking, but let me mention the Merneptah stele, which at least mentions the name of Israel as a people in about 1230 B.C.:

http://www.allaboutarchaeology.org/merneptah-stele-faq.htm

Yours,
Harold Holmyard






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