from: Israel Finkelstein /
Neil A. Silberman: The Bible unearthed.
Archeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin
of Its Sacred Texts; The Free Press, a division of Simon
& Schuster, Inc., 2001; German edition has got the
title "No trombones before Jericho" (orig. German:
"Keine Posaunen vor Jericho"): edition C.H.Beck oHG,
Munich 2002;
Here in this analysis is used the
German version "Keine Posaunen vor Jericho" of DTV,
Munich 2004, second edition of 2005. All page
indications refer to the German version. I hope the page
numbers are not very different.
The trade routes provoking new
wars
For the powers in the Mid East - not
important which it is, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, or
Persia - now is growing a profitable Arab trade. So, these
trade routes become one of the main criterions of policy
now. Safety and disponability of the trade routes have
first priority for the Empires of the Mid East (p.288).
Gaza for example is rated as a customs
zone of Assyria - that is said in a victory inscription of
the Assyrian king Tiglath Pileser III. Gaza is the
traditional terminal station of the desert routes where
the caravan routes are coming together (p.288).
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