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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Amarna Letters
  • Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:09:23 +0000

On Dec 24, 2007 4:52 PM, Jim Stinehart wrote:

> You could read Amarna Letters #27, #28 and #29 in this regard in particular.
> (Amarna Letters #17 - #26 provide background.)
>
> Let me here quote a small part of Amarna Letter #27, written by the most
> prominent man on the upper Euphrates River to his monotheistic son-in-law
> from far
> to the southwest. See if these very lines of text could almost be slipped
> right into the text of the Patriarchal narratives, because the match is so
> close:
>
> "Say to…my brother, my son-in-law, for whom I love and who loves me: Thus…,
> your father-in-law [on the upper Euphrates River]…. But now my brother
> [i.e., son-in-law] has not sent me the statues…May my brother now give me
> the
> statues…, and may he not hold them back." Amarna Letter #27: 1-6, 41-44

> (ii) A monotheistic son-in-law from far to the southwest,

Amenhotep IV was not monotheistic.

Yitzhak Sapir




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