Theophile Meek
A scholar at the
Egyptologist
placing them even later.
In the 1920s, Meek translated the
Lamentations as part of a team working on The Bible: An American Translation
.
In the book Hebrew Origins, he suggested that the Conquest of Palestine occurred in two phases: the first being represented by the settlement of the central highlands seen at 1400 BCE, and the second being seen archaeologically in the conquests of the "
territory tribes, but early stages of Joshua do, and that they were thus perhaps transposed in time.He is also widely cited for having suggested that the "Song of Songs" (a.k.a. the "
Song of Solomon") had striking similarities with a Babylonian
fertility myth.
References
- Theophile Meek, Hebrew Origins, 1950, Harper and Brothers
External links
- Theophile James Meek archival papers held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
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