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By Donald B. Redford

Covering the time span from the Paleolithic interval to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores 3 thousand years of uninterrupted touch among Egypt and Western Asia around the Sinai land-bridge. within the brilliant and lucid type that we think from the writer of the preferred Akhenaten, Redford provides a sweeping narrative of the love-hate dating among the peoples of historical Israel/Palestine and Egypt.

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Automatically population growth was limited, and complexity of government and society never achieved anything beyond a rudimentary level. Moreover transit corridors in western Asia are more difficult to negotiate than the Nile, and control of lengthy stretches of them virtually impossible. The result was that, although human society in Palestine shared with Egypt the foundation of the agricul­ 47 In general on Buto, see H. Altenmüller, LdÄ 1 (1975), 887-89; D. B. Redford, BES 5 (1983), 67—101; in prehistoric times the coast may have been much closer to the site.

26 Very few predynastic settlements have survived at a level or in a condition to be excavated with ease—much of the Delta has aggraded and those sites in the floodplain are similarly out of reach; consequently, it is to the better preserved cemeteries that one turns for evidence of material culture and religious beliefs. In particular three separate but overlapping sets of mortuary beliefs and practices may be elicited. In one the heavens capture the imagination of the primitives, who translate the stars into glorified beings, human-headed bird-souls of the departed.

Is now proved by the newly discovered Eblaite dialect of North Syria (represented in the tablets found by the Italians at Tel Mardikh),8 in which the common verb alakum, “to go,” turns up as ayakum. We should, therefore, look for a West Semitic word, which the Egyptians presumably heard on the lips of the Asiatics themselves, with the consonantal sequence + 1 + m. The search is not difficult. ‫ ״‬It is now clear that the Early Bronze Age Palestinians used the word to identify members of their own community.

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