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  • From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
  • To: George.Athas AT moore.edu.au, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Year 14
  • Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:28:31 EDT


If we cannot discuss a 6-month “year”, I wonder if we may instead be
allowed to discuss the apparent Biblical reference to Year 14, being one of
the
most important 12-month years in mankind’s history? Here is what Genesis 14:
5 says:

“And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with
him, and smote” [various parties, and then later destroyed a league of five
rebellious princelings].

Is the Biblical reference to “the fourteenth year” there a reference to
historical Year 14? The number 14 never appears elsewhere in the Patriarchal
narratives. The number 14 seems to have no symbolic value. Is this, then,
an open reference to Year 14 in secular history?

Note that both in Year 14 in secular history, and in “the fourteenth year”
at Genesis 14: 1-11, we see the following:

1. Four attacking rulers…

2. …utterly demolish…

3. …a league of five princelings. This is aptly summarized at Genesis 14:
9 as: “four kings against the five”.

4. The kingly title of one attacking ruler is MLK (LM.

5. Another attacking ruler either has the nickname “Tidal”, or ruthlessly
murdered his older brother named “Tidal”/Tudhaliya to seize the Hittite
throne. [As a nasty Hebrew nickname, “Tidal” in historical context
effectively means “Murderer”.]

6. Another attacking ruler has a Hurrian princeling name, and was either
re-educated by the Hittites at or near Alisar in the Hittite heartland, or
bears the derogatory title “king of Alisar”, effectively meaning “Hittite
Puppet”.

7. The fourth attacking ruler is an “Amorite Splittest”, either being the
“Amorite”/)MR ruler who historically “split off”/PL the “Amorite”/)MR
state of “Amurru”/)MR in northern Lebanon from the rest of Canaan, selling
out to the Hittites, or bears a nickname, )MR + PL, that means “Amorite
Splittest”. [Four Hebrew verbs meaning basically “to split off” start with
PL.]

* * *

And remember, the Biblical text gives us the e-x-a-c-t year in secular
history that all those things happened: Year 14/“the fourteenth year”.

This is no “myth”. No way. No, this is pinpoint accurate secular
history, coming straight out of the Bronze Age.

Catch the pulsating excitement of the Patriarchal narratives. As of Year
14.

Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois





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