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  • From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
  • To: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>, "Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Patriarchal Narratives was TD(L
  • Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:59:08 +0200


----- Original Message ----- From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: "Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>
Cc: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Patriarchal Narratives was TD(L



The oldest alphabetic Semitic writing attested so far is dated to pre-Hyksos
Egypt, one of which appears to me to say RBWN<name>MN<name> (typical
graffito). If their original writing was on skins and other perishable
materials, how much earlier did they have writing? How would we know? And
how much of Moses’ “authorship” of Genesis in reality just a compilation and
editing of earlier written materials?

I used to think that the “pharaoh who knew not Joseph” was the first of the
Hyksos pharaohs, but now I realize that the 12th dynasty pharaohs also fit
that description. They were from a new royal family, not the one Joseph
worked for. The more I think of it, the more it appears that a 13th dynasty
Exodus is accurate.

Karl W. Randolph.
***

Some pictures here
and text (if you can read French)

http://bible.archeologie.free.fr/inscriptionsdesert.html

Best

Arnaud Fournet




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