To: yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il, b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Dating the Pentateuch, Exodus Enigmas
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 06:33:22 EST
In a message dated 3/22/2000 2:41:00 AM Central Daylight Time,
yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il writes:
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I could make a case for the Transjordan Conquest traditions being from
the same stream tradition as the Jacob-returning-from-Aram traditions,
and posit a settlement/conquest of Northern Transjordan by peoples close
to the Arameans ethnically and linguistically - amd derive evidence from
the language of the Deir Alla Inscription. This immigration/conquest
would be a another wave in the same line as the Moabites and Ammonites
(who are descedndants of Lot, Abraham's kinsman, and also from Upper
Mesopotamia. >>
Or why not consider both the Jacob/Aram traditions and the Exodus/Conquest
traditions as being mythologizations of the Return-from-Exile (Is 40)?