Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>]

Karl, Petrie was a great Egyptologist in his day, but that was a century ago. 
I'd read some more updated works on Egyptian architecture before using that 
data.

 

Yigal

 

From: K Randolph [mailto:kwrandolph AT gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 3:38 AM
To: Yigal Levin
Cc: b-hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 2 Samuel 12:31 MLKN or MLBN?

 

Yigal:

3. You seem to assume that "only one pharaoh used fired bricks before the 
Greek era, and that was Raamesis II". This is the first time I've ever heard 
this claim. Could you point me to a reference? Not that it would convince me 
that Ramses II was the same as Necho, but interesting notwithstanding.

 

This is from Petrie, `Nebesheh and Defenneh', p. 18, 19, as quoted in 
http://www.specialtyinterests.net/ramses2.html#crtd . This is a site that I 
have previously said has some strange conclusions, but unless they are lying, 
a pretty strong set of archaeological evidence. 


Yigal Levin

 

 

Karl W. Randolph.