To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: conquest etc.
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:28:09 +0200
Niels Peter Lemche wrote:
>
> And who says that Ai according
> to Josh is small?
Josh 7:3 "Only about two or three thousand need go up, for
they are few" (implication - smaller than Jericho, whereas
et-Tell is much bigger than Jericho).
Josh 10:2 "Gibeon was a great city ... and it was greater
than Ai" (Gibeon was much smaller than et-Tell.)
> Reda the text as it stands in the HB
> and not a rationalistic paraphrase of it.