The Amalekites: Fact or Fiction?

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8.6 هزار بار بازدید - 2 سال پیش - The Amalekites seem to be
The Amalekites seem to be the arch-enemies of Israel - so much so they are allotted for extermination, they are under the ban, or herem. But there are no references to this people group in extrabiblical sources? Did they actual exist in history? Can archaeology show us anything about them? Or are they a fiction invented by biblical authors? Let's explore that...

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If you'd like to read more here are just a few of the sources we used in this video:

Philip Webb, "Amalek," in the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Nashville, Holman Reference: 2015.

Edward Lipinski, On the Skirts of Canaan in the Iron Age: Historical and Topographical Researches. Leuven: Peeters Publishing, 2006.

Gerald L. Mattingly, "Amalek," The Anchor Bible Dictionary, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Volkmar Fritz, "Tel Masos," Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.

Avraham Faust, “The Negev ‘Fortresses’ in Context: Reexamining the “Fortress” Phenomenon in Light of General Settlement Process of the Eleventh-Tenth Centuries B.C.E.,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 126.2 (2006): 135-160.

A. Kirk Grayson, ed. Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC). Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods Volume 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 2002.


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