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Challenge to Tiglath - Part I

Posted by Paul Younan (Guest) - Saturday, August 21 2004, 23:40:45 (CEST)
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Hi Khizma,

One the subject of whether or not the Patriarchs of the Hebrews were Akkadians, I'd like to have your thoughts on a series of questions. Here is the first one:

(1) The first evidence I'd like your comments on is from the recently published "Archives Royales De Mari", a French translation of nearly 5,000 cuneiform tablets from Mari on the Euphrates River which was published in 23 volumes.

The wide time period covered in the Mari texts (from the 31st to the 6th centuries B.C.) allow for the biblical timeframe of Abraham.

From evidence gathered in the Mari texts, Amorite personal names tended to be built from an imperfect verb. One such name, "Ishmael," (meaning, "God has heard" from the imperfect of "shma", "hear") has been found *twice* in the Mari texts.

As you know from your reading of Genesis - Abraham had a son Ishmael by his concubine or slave wife Hagar. Of course, the use of such a biblical name can not prove the historicity of the biblical character, but it does offer a confirmation that such a name was possible in antiquity and lends independent proof of Abraham's existence.

Look forward to your thoughts, as you are open-minded unlike Parhad.

-Paul

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