AWOL - The Ancient World Online http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/ This blog began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World...
I will preface by saying I have not read the book yet either. But I am quite familiar with Mr. Wood's (+ Rohl & others) Bible-centric thesis. Defining...
Josh. 5:12 states quite clearly that the manna stopped falling after the Israelites crossed the Jordan. Don't know about the quails... Amihai Mazar has...
"And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of...
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victor avigdor hurowitz
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Jan 7, 2009 3:23 am
The manna stopped when the Israelites crossed the Jordan (stated specifically in the Book of Joshua) and started to eat from the produce of the Land (ebur...
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David Hall
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Jan 7, 2009 3:43 am
You may not have seen my point. Israel may have been expanding from Iron I to Iron II out of the hill country near Shechem and Jerusalem. The expansion I...
I saw your point but your argument is based on a series of assumptions. It is gratuitous. Nobody can say anything against it because there is virtually nothing...
Happy New Year all! Certainly 2009 could not be worse than 2008! The most important argument for the identification of Beitin with Bethel -one used by Anson...
Dear Thomas, That is clear to me, but it is the same with other approaches. In a sense, though, Albright was right, since 'probability' never is more than...
... This little statement got lost in the discussion, but I just wanted to point out that no, only English speakers who know a little Hebrew would think that...
Exactly. It is easier being dogmatic about what we do not know, while what we know in ancient history is so often covered with uncertaintly. But even more...
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David Hall
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Jan 7, 2009 12:43 pm
No where did I detail an immigration theory, nor deny one. Jewish Israel is at this time a nation of more than one race and mixed race. Remember the...
... At Jericho the Iron Age II remains were found at the base of the mound. The Jericho Early Late Bronze Age habitation may have been early and not...
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David Hall
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Jan 7, 2009 4:09 pm
There is a copy of L. Grabbe's, Israel in Transition, in a local library. Will try to read it. I have a relatively recent title to recommend also: THE...
Ummm, there may be a little conflation in this summary of conflagration. Neither Mycenae nor Hattusas are on the sea coast, and even Alalakh, though on a...
If I may be immodest, please allow me to announce the publication of my latest book, which may be of some interest to list members: Carl S. Ehrlich, ed., From...
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Beatrice Hopkinson
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Jan 7, 2009 10:32 pm
David, Re your note of Allbright's description of Iron Age I central hill country pottery being crude and undecorated. I have not seen any illustrations of...
The work by Prof. Drews makes a few interesting points, although the thrust of his argument is that an evolution in weaponry was a significant factor in...
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David Hall
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Jan 8, 2009 12:45 am
The reference to crude Iron Age I pottery was in the book, The Excavation of Bethel (1934-1960), Albright & Kelso (both directors of ASOR during different...
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David Hall
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Jan 8, 2009 12:46 am
Although Carthage was a seafaring nation, Hannibal crossed the Alps to try to attack Rome. The mind of the warrior was not always rational. In the case...
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victor
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Jan 8, 2009 6:16 am
This link doesn't seem to work. Can it be sent again, please. Thank you, Prof. Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Dept. of Bible, Archaeology and ANE Ben-Gurion...
Carl S. Ehrlich, ed., From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) xv + 506 pp., with...
On the "images of Sea Peoples attacking Ramesses III included families in ox carts advancing towards the Egyptian delta," see now R. Drews, "Medinet Habu:...
... in ox carts advancing towards the Egyptian delta. ... What is commonly referred to as the 'Ox-cart scene' along with its accompanying text, actually...
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David Hall
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Jan 8, 2009 3:59 pm
It is better to look for an end to violence. The scope of my research has been to reiterate the battle at Jericho as described in the Bible may have never...
... It "/could/ be treated" as a false doctrine about God *even if* the battle of Jericho actually happened. But I remind you that the topic of what is and...
