Biblical Hebrew Forum

[JimStinehart AT aol.com]

Yitzhak  Sapir: 
You wrote:  “Besides, as I stated originally,  even aside the DH, there are 
other factors
such as archaeological evidence  that is incompatible with many details of
the Patriarchal, Exodus and  Conquest narratives.  That alone is sufficient to
lead us to understand  that the composition of these narratives is in the
1st millennium BCE, and  mainly faint memories if even that go back further.” 
Please set  forth one or more items of  “archaeological evidence that is 
incompatible with many details  of the Patriarchal narratives” for a  
mid-14th 
century BCE Patriarchal  Age. 
You and Yigal Levin keep insisting that the  Patriarchal narratives were 
composed in the mid-1st millennium  BCE.  If so, then where are the  stories 
in 
the received text that do not fit a mid-14th century BCE  Patriarchal Age?  
And 
where is the  archaeological evidence that is incompatible with a mid-14th 
century  BCE Patriarchal Age? 
The mid-14th century BCE is such  a short, peculiar time period that it 
should be very obvious if the Patriarchal  narratives were composed in the 
mid-1st 
millennium BCE, rather than,  as under my view, in the mid-14th century BCE.  
You will recall that the  mid-14th century BCE period has the dreaded 
Hittites, the Hurrians,  iniquitous Amorites, the Decapitation of the Shechem 
Offensive, the monotheistic  son-in-law from the southwest who rudely breaks 
with his 
irate father-in-law  from Naharim on the upper Euphrates River over the 
matter 
of statues that are  not delivered by the son-in-law, tent-dwelling 
habiru/Hebrews, constant battling  over water well rights at Sur/Tyre, a 
horrible 
2-year famine in parts of Canaan,  foreign mercenaries in Lebanon (who might 
be 
given the derogatory nickname of  “Invaders”/“Philistines” by a Hebrew author 
in the mid-14th century  BCE), etc., etc., etc.  It’s really  a very peculiar 
time period, chockfull of very specific facts.  How could any group of  
mid-1st 
millennium BCE authors be coming up with all that  mid-14th century BCE 
material?  And the biggest issue in the mid-14th century BCE was whether  the 
first 
historical monotheist would sire a son by his beloved main wife  #1.  Sound 
familiar?  And did I mention that the strange  pharaoh in Egypt during that 
time period took back all the land along the Nile  River for the royal 
household? 
Please set  forth some evidence for your position that there is “
archaeological  evidence that is incompatible with many details of the  
Patriarchal 
narratives” for a  mid-14th century BCE Patriarchal Age.  Then we’ll evaluate 
your 
evidence, out  in the open, for all to see.  Is  that too much to ask? 
Jim  Stinehart 
Evanston,  Illinois



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