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Jan 3, 2023 · Although domesticated camels may not have been widespread in Mesopotamia in the second millennium, these pieces of evidence show that by the second millennium, there were at least some domesticated camels. Thus, camel domestication had taken place in Mesopotamia by the time of Abraham.
Feb 7, 2014 · The same reference work says: “In Mesopotamia, cuneiform lists mention the creature [the camel] and several seals depict it, indicating that the animal may have reached Mesopotamia by the beginning of the second millennium,” that is, by Abraham’s time.
Feb 17, 2014 · The aforementioned texts appear to be clear evidence from the 2nd millennium BC for domesticated camels in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the northern Levant. Yet, evidence for camel domestication may be found even into the 3rd millennium BC.
Abraham’s servant drove 10 camels to upper Mesopotamia and took great pains to water them there ( Genesis 24:10–11 ). Even Rachel, wife of Jacob, rode a camel while in Upper Mesopotamia ( Genesis 31:34 ). The events in these accounts have been traditionally dated c. 2000–1600 B.C.E.
“The Ship of the Desert, the Donkey of the Sea”: The Camel in Early Mesopotamia Revisited. In: Cohen, C., Hurowitz, V., Hurvitz, A., Muffs, Y., Schwartz, B. and Tigay, J. ed. Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday .
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Mar 15, 2022 · But read Genesis carefully and you see that all its camels come from outside of Israel, from Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, where there is ample evidence of domestication of the camel during the period of the patriarchs” (see Mark W. Chavalas, “Did Abraham Ride a Camel?” Biblical Archaeology Review 44 [2018]: 52, 64–65).
Feb 10, 2014 · Newly published research by two archaeologists at Tel Aviv University in Israel shows that camels weren't domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean until the 10th century B.C.—several centuries...
