Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] RE: question re: Tel Dan stela
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:50:56 -0700
On 25/05/2004 10:15, Scott Needham wrote:
... (quoting Lemche)
Thus, Jehu is in an Assyrian inscription referred to as the `son of
Omri', which he of course was not. ...
Interesting. The Assyrian inscription ways that Jehu was son of Omri.
The only text which says that he was not is the Hebrew Bible. I didn't
think it was Lemche's style to consider the Hebrew Bible more reliable
than a contemporary inscription.
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