Subject: Re[2]: Dating the Pentateuch, Exodus Enigmas
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:22:52 -0500
Or could it perhaps be a tent-city leaving no solid traces, like the
city recently discussed mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions so many
centuries before the earliest archaeological traces?
Peter Kirk
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Subject: Re: Dating the Pentateuch, Exodus Enigmas
Author: <npl AT teol.ku.dk> at Internet
Date: 22/03/2000 08:47
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.. The only necessary thing in order to mention Heshbon in a literary piece
of work is that this Heshbon must have existed as the name of a place,
whether a ruin or a still thrieving and inhabited place. So you cannot
really use this kind of material for dating except as a terminus a quo.