回复乡下人进城：骆驼，香料和非利士人

圣经奇迹：圣经是上帝的话是不会错的……


创世纪 37:25
他们坐下吃饭，举目观看，见有一夥米甸的以实玛利人从基列来，用骆驼驮着香料，乳香，没药，要带下埃及去。
这里的他们是雅各的儿子们，事情应该发生在公元前 18 世纪的时候，对吧？
奇迹出来了，而且是两大奇迹：
以实玛利人驮货的骆驼是哪里来的？会帮人驮货的骆驼在公元前 10 世纪末才出现啊！
以实玛利人的商业意识绝对超前啊！圣经里所说的香料、乳香和没药大约在公元前 800 年前后才成为商品 ……
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答：至少乡下人进城应该举创世纪12：16的例子，这是圣经首次提到骆驼。“法老因她而厚待亚伯兰，亚伯兰就得了羊群，牛群，公驴，男仆，女仆，母驴，骆驼。”那会儿以实玛利人的祖先以实玛利还没出生呢。在美国亚利桑纳最近对骆驼骨头的考古发现中，大概可以追溯到一万年以前。不过倒是应该查查骆驼在埃及的历史，因为亚伯兰得到的骆驼是从埃及来，以实玛利人是带骆驼去埃及。http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/camel.htm 按照这篇文章所说，骆驼和埃及金字塔倒是让人想起了电影《Mummy》.法老的假胡子要用到香料labdanum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labdanum
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还有以撒，就是雅各他爹，创世纪里说了：
26:1 在亚伯拉罕的日子，那地有一次饥荒。这时又有饥荒，以撒就往基拉耳去，到非利士人的王亚比米勒那里。
以撒又得坐时空飞船了： 非利士人到那地方比以撒晚了 1000 年 ……
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答：虽然没有早于公元前12世纪对非利士人的记载，但是不能因此绝对证明以前就没有非利士人。
Some object to the Genesis references to Philistine residence in Canaan, arguing that the Philistines did not settle there until the 12th century B.C.E. But this objection does not rest on a solid basis. The New Bible Dictionary edited by J. Douglas (1985, p. 933) observes: “Since the Philistines are not named in extra-biblical inions until the 12th century BC, and the archaeological remains associated with them do not appear before this time, many commentators reject references to them in the patriarchal period as anachronistic.” However, in showing why such a position is not sound, mention is made of the evidence of a major expansion of Aegean trade reaching back to about the 20th century B.C.E. It is pointed out that a particular group’s not being prominent enough to be mentioned in the inions of other nations does not prove that the group did not exist. The conclusion reached in that New Bible Dictionary is: “There is no reason why small groups of Philistines could not have been among the early Aegean traders, not prominent enough to be noticed by the larger states.”