Camels in the Biblical World
Martin Heide, "Camels in the Biblical World "
English | ISBN: 1646021363 | 2021 | 432 pages | PDF | 90 MB
English | ISBN: 1646021363 | 2021 | 432 pages | PDF | 90 MB
Camels are first mentioned in the Bible as the movable property of Abraham. During the early monarchy, they feature prominently as long-distance mounts for the Queen of Sheba, and almost a millennium later, the Gospels tell us about the impossibility of a camel passing through a needle’s eye. Given the limited extrabiblical evidence for camels before circa 1000 BCE, a thorough investigation of the spatio-temporal history of the camel in the ancient Near and Middle East is necessary to understand their early appearance in the Hebrew Bible.
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