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Rev. Bryant J. Williams III: Let me respond to your second point first. 1. You wrote: “If you would read the entire passage of Numbers 21:33-35, then you would have found that 21:34 answered the question, "The LORD said to Moses, 'Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you, with his whole army and his land (my emphasis). Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.' " This indicated that permission had been granted by the LORD. God was giving the land to them for Og's aggression against the Israelites. Nothing new there since that is what happens when one goes to war against another foe and loses. ‘To the winner goes the spoils.’ " I agree that YHWH authorized the Israelites to live in
Bashan in the northern But note the key first half of Numbers 21: 33: “And they turned and went up by the way
of The answer, in my opinion, is that Moses had been east of
the The whole sequence makes perfect sense if MDYN =
2. You
wrote: “Midian is NOT What Biblical text would you cite in support of that
proposition? We have been looking
in some detail at Exodus 3: 1 and Exodus 3: 12, both of which make better sense
if Biblical “Midian”/MDYN = historical I am very interested in looking at any Biblical text that
would undercut my view that Biblical “Midian”/MDYN = historical
3. You wrote: “Furthermore, the Midianites, being nomadic people, would move over vast areas of land to maintain their flocks.” But there’s no way that Moses would drive his
father-in-law’s flock out of northwest “Sometimes, because it is such
an alien landscape, it appears that a large meteorite must have fallen out of
the sky and lodged itself between Africa and
By contrast, it would be sensible for Moses to lead Jethro’s flock 100 miles south of MDYN/Mitanni through steppeland, ending at the far northeast corner of Bashan, east of the Sea of Galilee, to the “desert”/XRB mountain Jabal al-Druze..
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