Jim Stinehart:You wrote: Genesis 37: 14 in fact says that the Patriarchs’ XBRWN is “a low tract of land of wide extent, fit for corn land…, and suited for battlefields” : (MQ.Fascinating. I too question some conventionally accepted sites with places named in the biblical narratives. Have you considered that even tent-dwelling Asiatics living within and just outside Egypt's borders in Canaan may have been just educated enough to read and write hieratic? I find it a bit difficult to picture nomads moving about laden down with so many clay tablets in Akkadian. …. It can also be written in hieratic, much easier. I would think if the patriarchal narratives were composed as early as the 14th century BC by "Hebrews" near Egypt, hieratic was the script used and parchment or leather was the writing material most of the time.
Tory ThorpeTel Aviv, Israel
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