| Denver Journal - 7:0102 - On the Reliability of the Old Testament (4544 words) |
 | Furthermore, Sanballat of Samaria's successor Sanballat II is known from the Wadi Daliyeh papyri, and the biblical Sanballat is referred to in the Elephantine papyri of 407 B.C. (p. |
| Of special interest is Kitchen's detailed work on the distinctive construction of names found among West Semitic peoples in the early second millennium B.C. This construction, the Amorite imperfective, occurs in names such as Isaac and Jacob (and Israel). |
| Although in theory names such as Isaac and Jacob could occur later, the clustering of these name forms in the same period as when the Bible depicts them is neither coincidental nor irrelevant. |
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