The original Italian article from which the foregoing article by Professor Pettinato was adapted has not gone unanswered. Professor Archi has responded to Professor Pettinato in the Italian journal Studi Eblaiti in an article entitled, “Ancora Sul-Ebla e la Biblia” (“Again on Ebla and the Bible”). With this summary of Professor Archi’s recent response BAR seeks to present both sides of the continuing dispute about interpretation of Ebla. Archi calls Pettinato’s article an “insulting evaluation”: “Uncontrollable anger like this,” says Archi, “is impermissible even in the most heated scholarly polemics … Pettinato, substitutes insults for the facts which he […]
