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| | Mail-Jewish Volume 18 Number 49 |
 | | There are various details of everyday life described in Breishit which make sense in the context of Amorite society, but would be difficult to understand later, e.g. |
 | | Comfortable saddles for riding camels had not been developed then, so they were only used for carrying baggage and women, but never ridden by men. |
 | | The earliest references to the Arameans in archeological sites, I think, occur around 1300 BCE, not long before Matan Torah (which seems to be in the mid-1200s BCE, based on the reference to Rameses II in Shemot, and on the earliest Egyptian inscription mentioning Israel, from 1220 BCE). |
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