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Solomon’s Officials and Administration in Kings - Koert van Bekkum

Biblical World

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Why Are These Long Lists of Places a Map?

There is one biblical verse in Isaiah 7, which also has a kind of that kind of derogatory connotation to it. So if you approach it from this literary point of view, this is how you, Kyle, what you said about that it might have been interpreted by describes themselves. This is also a possibility in interpreting the text. I think you bring up a really fantastic point, which actually gets us to back to that big question, like why these lists exist because they're maps.

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