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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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Neil Silberman is at the School of Applied Higher Studies in Paris.
[Neil Silberman] The early scholars attempted to place Abraham in a historic context of the Ammorite invasions. But do we believe this could be true today?
[Dominique Charpin, Assyriologist -- EPHE] The Ammorites are a people that are well-documented at the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millenniums, and it was very tempting to link Abraham's migration with that of the Ammorites. However, the Ammorite migrations primarily occurred in a West-East direction, whereas Abraham, in contrast, went from East to West. As a consequence, the link is not as obvious as was once thought.
[Narrator] It now appears to be well-accepted: there was no migration in the direction of Canaan at the time the Bible situates Abraham's voyage.
But new discoveries in the ruins of Mari and Nuzi relaunched the investigation on Abraham.
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