Kyle R. Greenwood and David B. Schreiner, Ahab’s House of Horrors: A Historiographic Study of the Military Campaigns of the House of Omri (Lexham Press, 2023), 56.
It appears then that the Old Testament remembers that their heritage, specifically manifested in the exploits of the patriarchs, showed points of contact with regions that would later produce important Aramean polities. In the words of [K. Lawson] Younger, the memories of the Pentateuch are best understood as “functional anachronisms” used for practical communication with a “‘right’ [descriptor] might require many words with no assurance that there would be an intelligible communication.” The Pentateuchal writers used a reference that would have likely been familiar to their Iron Age audience. They were essentially communicating: “Our forefathers came from the regions that you now know to be Aramean territory. However, whatever Aramean identity they may have had, the experiences of the exodus – our defining historical memory – frames our memory.
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