Biblical Hebrew Forum

[JimStinehart AT aol.com]

Prof. Levin:
 
Based on your post addressed to me, you agree that there is no inscription 
in secular history pre-dating the common era that supports your published 
theory that the QD$ at Genesis 14: 7 is a site located approximately 60 miles 
southeast of Gaza.
 
Moreover, based on your post directed to Yohanan and Karl, you further 
agree that “there is no reference to the places, peoples and events of Gen. 
14 
in ‘secular history’ (i.e. extra-biblical documents) of southern Canaan....”
 
For ten years now, I have been researching this question.  It is my 
considered opinion that by contrast to the mainstream scholarly view of the 
matter 
(your view), Genesis 14: 7 is arguably the best-attested sentence in the 
entire Bible.
 
I respectfully request that you allow me to make one long further post on 
this Year 14 thread.  That post will document the geographical names in 
Genesis 14: 7 (historical names documented in Bronze Age northern Canaan), 
the 
actions portrayed at Genesis 14: 7 (per the well-attested secular history of 
Bronze Age northern Canaan), and the exact timing of those actions -- Year 
14.  All of those aspects of Genesis 14: 7 will be verified by using 
well-known original documents from the secular history of Bronze Age northern 
Canaan, 
especially Amarna Letters written in Year 14 by princelings in northern 
Canaan.
 
In my opinion, that one post will show that Genesis 14: 7 is not a “myth”, 
as mainstream scholars would have it, but rather has pinpoint historical 
accuracy, in the secular historical context of Year 14 of Akhenaten’s 17-year 
reign, and that the assertions made at Genesis 14: 7 are fully verifiable by 
reference to well-known original documents from Bronze Age northern Canaan. 
 I will show that Genesis 14: 7 reads like a succinct executive summary of 
a series of Amarna Letters written by northern Canaanite princelings in Year 
14.
 
The pinpoint historical accuracy of Genesis 14: 7, in the context of the 
well-attested secular history of Late Bronze Age northern Canaan, is 
absolutely stunning.
 
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois