Biblical Hebrew Forum

[JimStinehart AT aol.com]

James Christian:
 
You and I agree that the author of Genesis 36: 8-43 knows nothing  
whatsoever about the historical Hurrians.  But in an earlier post, I listed  
all the 
many factors that strongly suggest that chapter 14 of Genesis was  composed 
in the Late Bronze Age.  If chapter 14 of Genesis is a Late Bronze  Age 
composition, then the early Hebrew author of chapter 14 of Genesis certainly  
knew all about the Amorites and the Hurrians, and he knew that both the 
Amorites  and the Hurrians lived exclusively north of the Dead Sea.  Your 
theory  
of Genesis 14: 6-7, like the scholarly theory, insists that both the 
Amorites  and the Horites/Hurrians are portrayed as living south of the Dead 
Sea.  
 But that simply cannot be, if chapter 14 of Genesis was composed in the  
Late Bronze Age.
 
The strongest argument against the conventional geographical understanding  
of Genesis 14: 6-7 is that chapter 14 of Genesis dates all the long way 
back to  the Late Bronze Age, to a period when everyone in the ancient Near 
East knew  that the Amorites and the Hurrians lived north of the Dead Sea.   
Accordingly, both Genesis 14: 6, and Genesis 14: 7,  m-u-s-t  be  referencing 
locales  n-o-r-t-h  of the Dead Sea.
 
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois