Yigal: Addendum to the last message:
I didn’t google for the other peoples you mention, so I can’t answer concerning them. But the Amalekites, because they are also identified with the Hyksos / Amu do show up in other histories, some were referenced in the documents I read claiming Arabic sources. Arabic would be extra-Biblical. Karl W. Randolph. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Yigal Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > Karl, I would love to see where you're getting this from. As far as I > know, the answer to David's question is no: there is now known evidence, > outside of the Bible itself, that a people/tribe called Amalek ever > existed. The fact that later writers, already with the biblical text, > identified Arabian tribes that they were familiar with with the biblical > Amalek is not proof of anything. By the way, the same is true for the > Midianites, the Gorgashites, the Jebusites and several other groups. **** > > ** ** > > Yigal Levin**** > > >
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