Dear Chavoux,

Thank you for your post. However, list rules are that all posts must be signed 
with the writers full name.

Thank you,

Yigal Levin
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 12:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Digest, Vol 111, Issue 4

Hi Jim

This was quite an interesting read for me. I just have two questions though:

On 8 March 2012 19:00:

>
> From: [email protected]
>
<snip>

> Voila!  We’ve got it.  The name “Haran”/HRN means “Mountain” in west 
> Semitic/Hebrew, and Haran dies in the “Mountain”-named country, that 
> is, the non-mountainous country whose Late Bronze Age name, however, 
> reflected the [Zagros] “Mountain” origin of its rulers, the Kassites.

Why would anybody be named for the place of his death? Or rather: how _can_ 
anybody be named for the place of his _death_? I assume that even in the "Late 
Bronze Age" people were named at (or shortly after) birth and not only after 
dying?

Second question: why "Late" Bronze Age? If the establishment of the Israelite 
Kingdom(s) coincide with the Iron Age (as almost all archaeologists would 
agree), should the patriarchs not rather be living in the early or middle 
Bronze Age? (Moses being in the Middle or Late Bronze Age).

Shalom
Chavoux
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