Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Jim:

A few questions:

Since you assume that the central theme of Joshua, namely the invasion of
Canaan by Israel in the late 15th century BC, is a myth and false history,
why do you give any credence to the city lists in the book?

Seeing as there is some evidence that ancient Hebrew was a consonant-vowel
language, in other words, each consonant was followed by a vowel (some
people on this list are rather hot in their opposition to this idea), why do
you ignore that the pharaoh $$Q (probably pronounced "Shishakka") is
Shisherka, otherwise known as Thutmosis III? In your latest posting, you
moved him back to mid 15th century BC, a contemporary of Moses, instead of
late 10th century BC?

Again pointing to that there is some evidence that Hebrew was
consonant-vowel, wouldn't the pronunciation of YQB being ya-ko-be (final -e
unstressed), a wine or olive oil press, be a better fit to the late 10th
century BC name found in the Thutmosis III / Shisherka list than your
proposed Yakob-el?

Where is your evidence that Yakob-El is an old Amorite name?

Except for Joshua, which you believe is untrustworthy, city names were not
listed except when sometihng significant happened in or near them, so why do
you think that the Bible has a near exhaustive record of all town names in
pre-Babylonian Exile Israel? What is your reasoning?

Karl W. Randolph.