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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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when the name was cited in a certain number of texts. However, the sudden increase in the number of texts available meant that there was clear evidence that the name was widely used not only around 1,800 but in the centuries that followed. So there was no real proof of the relevant time period for this Biblical Patriarch.
[Narrator] As the tablets were gradually deciphered, new theories appeared,
most of which tried to prove the existence of Abraham in the 2nd millennium B.C.
Cambridge, Great Britain
John Van Seters, an internationally recognized expert, has been working on the Nuzi tablets for a long time.
The tablets contain a story similar to that of Sarah, Abraham's barren wife in the Bible.
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