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  • From: kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Eve and the Hivites
  • Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:13:18 +0000


Jim,

You are using linguistic guesses to prove that the patriarchal narratives
match the Amarna letters. Why don't you do linguistic analysis of all of the
words in the Amarna narratives to match the patriarchal narratives? Why do
you act like one is the true story and the other one is concealed version of
the same stories? How do you know which is the real version?

You want the patriarchal narratives to fit the Amarna letters, so you have to
move everything and show that every name in Genesis must fit the Amarna
stories somehow. You call the Amarna letters archeological proof of what
happened, but the patriarchal narratives are not real records of that time of
history unless you can match the names to the AMarna letters. Can you prove
that the stories in Genesis are fixed versions of amarna stories without
linguistic guessing? Maybe they are separate stories with a few similar
details and many differences that you can only see as artistic license by the
writer. That is why your ideas can't be accepted by scholars after showing
them for years. You are not proving the first part of your claim about the
stories in Genesis being based on the Amarna letters except by using
linguistic guesses about words from thousands of years ago that no one can
say you are right or wrong about.

Kenneth Greifer

Kenneth Greifer



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