Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Yigal:

Your comments sound reasonable .....

but then we have the thousands of clay tablets from ras shamra, dating to
century 13 b.c.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/ancient_texts/MRZH.shtml
If such a relatively small and unimportant city generated and maintained
such a large corpus of clay tablet records in alphabet writing system, why
not the same result for the city of david or its predecessor? Do not the
ugarit facts, imply similar findings under the rubble of temple mount?

And as for jabal al lawz, why would saudi arabia throw up barbed wire and
guard houses around a mountain, in the middle of the desert, in the middle
of no where, along with big signs announcing archaeological site?

It seems to me more than speculation about alphabet documents, is in play at
both sites.

regards,

fred burlingame
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

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> I'm not denying that there could be something at  Jabal al-Lawz, I'm just
> saying that if there is, it's unlikely to have any connection to what we've
> been discussing. As far as the Temple mount, I am sure that there are
> ancient ruins there. I'm also sure that given the amount of destruction and
> the climate, the chances that documents written on perishable materials
> would have survived are very small. And considering the fact that very few
> even non-perishable Bronze or Iron Age inscriptions have been found in and
> around Jerusalem, I would not hold my breath. Which means that most of what
> anyone says on the subject is very speculative.
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> Yigal Levin
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