jim, i am afraid your interest in hurrian history, the pharaos and year 13-14 is a bit (?) off b-hebrew center, even if you compose a 30,000 word opus to the contrary, ever repeating the same old arguments.
anyway, since i suspect you are referring to the amarna letters, please check if they were written in hurrian. to the best of my knowledge, they were mostly written in a unique mixture of akkadian and NW semitic [see many papers by moran and others], in which case there is nothing spectacular in the evidence you bring - and have brought in so many occasions before. in fact, i suspect the name you quote is abdi-heba, not ir-heba. this is significant: while "heba" is (perhaps!) related to a hurrian goddess, but maybe not, "abdi" is (quite certainly!) semitic. it is a fact that his hurrian origin has never been established, a reality you prefer to "forget". see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdi-Heba nir cohen _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
