That's very interesting but I am not sure its considered a legitimate avenue of archeological inquiry. Do you know? I'm also interested in what archeological evidence - or the lack of it - mean.
It wouldn’t be an ‘archeological inquiry’, no, but it’s certainly a legitimate endeavour. A nation’s history is frequently reflected in the words and names it absorbs from other cultures and languages since they require a significant amount of contact to absorb.
That's very interesting but I am not sure its considered a legitimate avenue of archeological inquiry. Do you know? I'm also interested in what archeological evidence - or the lack of it - mean.
I wrote about it here, Shavuot and Biblical criticism. https://ishayirashashem.substack.com/p/shavuot-and-biblical-criticism
It wouldn’t be an ‘archeological inquiry’, no, but it’s certainly a legitimate endeavour. A nation’s history is frequently reflected in the words and names it absorbs from other cultures and languages since they require a significant amount of contact to absorb.