Yigal: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Yigal Levin <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is actually an interesting point. Literally, Kenneth and Karl are > correct: they served 12 years, they rebelled 13 years, on the 14 year > Chedorlaomer arrived. … > > To me it seems, that which grammatically 13 may be correct, the context > calls for 13th. The form can be explained in terms of literary form and > genre. As we (that includes you, Karl) always say, context is everything. > > Yigal Levin > > > The way I understand it is as follows: • We know very little about the early bronze age, as very little written materials have survived from that period. We may know Chedarloamar under a different name from other, surviving texts. • That the rebellion lasted so long can be explained that there may have been several rebellions that occurred at the same time, and Chederloamar took care of the closer, more important rebellions first, only in the 14th year being confident that he had pacified the important areas enough to go out to the fringes of his empire to put down a minor rebellion. Of course this explanation is speculation, but plausible. While the context gives the possibility of a 14 year event, there are enough unknowns to allow for a 26 year event as indicated by the text. Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
