Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>]

We're getting a little off the topic of Hebrew here, James. But ok, I'll 
indulge you this one - just don't head into the historicity and dating of the 
Exodus question. Yes, I think the Amarna corpus is fairly good evidence that 
there is no entity called 'Israel' around at the time. Again, we can't be 
completely sure, because we'd have to know a little more about who used the 
term 'Israel' and what they thought they were describing with it. So there is 
some ambiguity involved. But, yes, I'd say it's a plausible conclusion given 
the nature of the evidence.


GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au