To: 2MAR$ who wrote (51292 ) 3/29/2014 3:23:28 PM From: Brumar89 Respond to Wrong. Camels were domesticated in ancient times in the ME:a camel is mentioned in a list of domesticated animals from Ugarit, dating to the Old Babylonian period (1950-1600 BC). Note: Ugarit is an ancient city (and archeological site) on the coast of Syria. Are people going to claim the Ugarit tablets found there are late forgeries? How would that work, since the city was destroyed around 1200 BC and not discovered again till 1928? BTW, one of the Phoenician (& Hebrew) alphabet's letters is gimel, the word for camel. ] a great deal of archaeological and textual evidence must be either ignored or explained away." Christianity Today , Kennedy said that he noticed archaeologists who work in Israel and Jordan seem to date camel domestication later than those who work in Egypt and Mesopotamia. "[Israel] doesn't have much writing from before the Iron Age, 1000 BC," he said. "So there aren't as many sources to look at. Whereas in Egypt, you have writing all the way back to 3000 BC and in Mesopotamia the same thing." Based on Egyptian and Mesopotamian accounts, Kennedy believes domestication probably occurred as early as the third millennium BC. not only ignored evidence from outside Israel, they also assumed too much about their own research. "All they really tell us is that at that particular place where they were working they found some camel bones that they interpreted as in a domesticated context between the ninth and 11th centuries BC," Kennedy said. "It doesn't tell us that camels couldn't have been used in other nearby areas earlier than that.""absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." The absence of evidence for Hittites once fueled some 19th-century debates over the Bible—until the vast Hittite empire was discovered in Anatolia. Questions about the Book of Daniel once focused on the absence of the prominently featured Belshazzar from Babylonian king lists—until it was discovered that Belshazzar was actually the son of Nabonidus, and co-regent. Yes, at one time, eager debunkers claimed the Bible had invented an entire mythical ancient people, the Hittites. Then archeologists discovered the Hittite empire. Whoops, on to camels or whatever we can find. ]http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/february-web-only/latest-challenge-bible-accuracy-abraham-anachronistic-camel.html?paging=off
