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Jan 3, 2023 · Did camels exist in Biblical times? Some Biblical texts, such as Genesis 12 and 24, claim that Abraham owned camels. Yet archaeological research shows that camels were not domesticated in the land of Canaan until the 10th century B.C.E.—about a thousand years after the time of Abraham.
Feb 11, 2014 · The New York Times, in a story about the finding today, announced, “There are too many camels in the Bible, out of time and out of place … these anachronisms are telling evidence that the Bible was written or edited long after the events it narrates and is not always reliable as verifiable history.” Behold, a mystery: the Case of the ...
Feb 10, 2014 · Feb. 10, 2014. There are too many camels in the Bible, out of time and out of place. Camels probably had little or no role in the lives of such early Jewish patriarchs as Abraham,...
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Feb 11, 2014 · The New York Times, in a story about the finding today, announced, “There are too many camels in the Bible, out of time and out of place … these anachronisms are telling evidence that the Bible was written or edited long after the events it narrates and is not always reliable as verifiable history.”
The Bible reader will learn much about every aspect of camels. For example, to what do the forty camels in 2 Kgs. 8:9 refer? Heide and Peter (pp. 272-73) compare “a load of mules” in 2 Kgs. 5:17, and suggest that the reference to forty camels may have been a means to “measure substantial amounts of trade goods in Damascus,” an ...
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...
