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Nir Cohen: You wrote: “as i understand it, (MQ has to be a low place, hence not consistent with the ridge top. it is usually mentioned as opposite of HR. also, (MQ is normally mentioned describing a MAJOR (*) valley with fertile land, agriculture and densely inhabited, which again is not consistent with a ridge which only sustains small, deep, arid, valleys with hostile habitat. i imagine that, for example, most biblical (MQYM which are east or west of the watershed ridge are, in fact, WEST, due to their favorite precipitation, soil, trade and topographic elements; the eastward valleys were mentioned only for strategic reasons: war, tracing boundaries etc.” I agree 100%.
On that basis, I conclude that when Genesis 37: 14 says that the
Patriarchs’ The only thing I would add is that the Late Bronze Age is
the o-n-l-y time in history when the northeast
So the northeast Jim Stinehart |
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