Tell el Amarna and the Bible

by Charles F. Pfeiffer

[42]Text 288, lines 33-40. Nahrim is the land of Mitanni; Kapasi may be Cush.

[43]Text 287, lines 53-57

[44]Text 280, lines 21-35

[45]F. Thureau-Dangin, “Nouvelles lettres d’el-Amarna,” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archeologie orientale, XIX, pp. 91-108. Text 290a in S. A. B. Mercer, The Tell el-Amarna Tablets (Toronto: 1939)

[46]F. Thureau-Dangin, op. cit., pp. 91-108: Mercer text 248a

[47]This view was popularized by Sir Charles Marston in, The Bible Comes Alive (New York: n.d.), pp. 89-108. Marston felt that he could identify Joshua in the Amarna texts.

[48]“The Ha-BI-ru—Kin or Foe of Israel?” The Westminster Theological Journal XIX-X), pp. 1-24; 170-184; 46-70

[49]So, for example, John Bright, A History of Israel (Philadelphia: 1959), p. 113; G. Ernest Wright, Biblical Archaeology, 2nd edition (Philadelphia: 1962), p. 60; Cyrus H. Gordon, The World of the Old Testament (Garden City: 1958), p. 144.

[50]Text 8, lines 25-34

[51]Text 34, lines 16-21; 35, lines 10-20