Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Jim,

you've completely and utterly lost the plot. The differences in these
stories are far more striking than any so called similarities you are
forcing on them.

I think you should also finally make your mind up on who the first
monotheistic leader was. Was it Abraham, Isaac or Jacob? You seem to keep
switching from Abraham to Jacob whenever it seems to you to best fit your
theory. I'm being to think that Akhenaton is now a trinitarian god in your
theory encompassing Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

On 12 May 2010 21:42, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

>  James Christian:
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> You wrote:  “Actually, it's far worse out of context than that Karl. The 
> context of the Amarna correspondence is that he is trying to pretend he had 
> nothing to do
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> with the attacks on neighbouring territories. In fact, he is such a coward
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> that he is willing to lie about not knowing his son had been hiring hapiru
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> to carry out the attacks and is even willing to give his son up to the
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> Pharoah. This has no parallels with Genesis 34 whatsoever.”
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> Hello, hello?  How can you possibly say that “[t] his has no parallels with 
> Genesis 34 whatsoever.”
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> Each of Hamor and Labayu commits the same sin:  enticing tent-dwelling 
> people to become partisans of Shechem, in order to try to create a Greater 
> Shechem out of much of central Canaan.
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> Here’s the nefarious Biblical enticement offered to the tent-dwelling 
> Hebrews by Hamor:
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> “Make marriages with us.  Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters 
> for yourselves. You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. 
> Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it."  Genesis 34: 9-10
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> Note the key phrases of enticement offered to the supposedly gullible 
> tent-dwelling early Hebrews:  “[T]he land shall be open to you.  …[G]et 
> property in it."
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> That is  e-x-a-c-t-l-y  the enticement that Labayu historically, and 
> nefariously, offered to the tent-dwelling Hapiru:
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> “Are we to act like Labayu when he was giving away the land of Sakmu 
> [Shechem] to the [tent-dwelling] Hapiru?”  Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem, Amarna 
> Letter EA 289: 18-24
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> It’s the  s-a-m-e  sin, in the  s-a-m-e  context, in the  s-a-m-e  place 
> (Shechem).
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> Hamor and Labayu commit the same sin and pay the same price:  death from a 
> sneak attack on behalf of, but not with the approval of, the first 
> historical monotheistic leader of a people.
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> Finally, note that both in the Bible and historically, and quite 
> surprisingly, no one ever pays any real price for that murder of the ruler 
> of Shechem who had such grand plans (all of which came to naught).
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> Jim Stinehart
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> Evanston, Illinois
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