Mount Karkom
Mount Karkom, also Har Karkom (
Identification with Mount Sinai
On the basis that the
James K. Hoffmeier wrote[4]
Scholars have reacted with either indifference or antagonism to Anati’s revisionist theory. Revisionist chronologies are not new but have been roundly rejected by trained historians, biblical scholars, and archaeologists. One early critic was Israel Finkelstein, who penned a devastating review.81 He rightly rejects Anati’s conclusions, because the type of Early Bronze Age cultic installations discovered at Har Karkom have also been found in significant numbers in the southern desert, Negev, and Sinai—so Anati’s finds are not unique, and Finkelstein is appalled by Anati’s chronological revisionism. He also finds the location so close to Kadesh and the Negev problematic, especially since a few years earlier he had argued for a south Sinai location for the mountain of God on the basis of ecological factors. Another problem for Anati’s theory is that if this mountain marks the place where Israel received the tablets with the ten commandments, in what language would they have been written between 2200 and 2000 b.c.? The Canaanite alphabetic script, from which the Hebrew script was borrowed, was still developing around 1800 b.c.
References
- ^ Emmanuel Anati, The riddle of Mount Sinai : archaeological discoveries at Har Karkom (2001)
- ^ Mount Sinai has been found: some Archaeological discoveries at Har Karkom
- ^ Mount Sinai has been found: some Archaeological discoveries at Har Karkom
- ISBN 978-0-19-515546-4.
Further reading
- Emmanuel Anati. "Introducing the World Archives of Rock Art (WARA): 50.000 years of visual arts". New discoveries, new interpretations, new research methods, XXI Valcamonica Symposium, Capo di Ponte, Edizioni del Centro, 2004. pp. 51–69. Archived from the original on 2006-08-28.
See also
- Exodus: A Journey to the Mountain of God, 1992 documentary
- Emmanuel Anati, Italian archaeologist