To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Jericho's Anomalies (cut)
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 00:16:57 +0200
At 16.44 02/06/00 +0200, Jonathan D. Safren wrote:
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>> When did Aramaeans first hit Mesopotamian inscriptions -- not Ahlamu, but
>> Aramaeans? When the Hebrews were already supposed to have been in
>> Palestine. When the climatic change drove them out of the steppes and into
>> more arable lands to survive, causing such trouble for the Assyrians and
>> Babylonians in the Khabur region and Suhi.
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>If I remember correctly - and I may not - the Arimu, identified with the
>Arameans, first appear in 12th century BCE Middle Assyrian inscriptions.
>I forgot which king mentions them first; it may have been one of the
>Tukulti-Ninurtas or the Tiglat-Pilesers. Someon e have a book handy?
Yes, it was a Tiglath-pileser -- the first. End of the twelfth, beginning
of the eleventh.