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Ebla Evidence Evaporates

Smithsonian expert guesses Ebla tablets will support historicity of Patriarchal narratives, but we won’t know for decades.

One of the most direct links between the Ebla tablets and the Bible is the reported reference in the Ebla tablets to the five Cities of the Plain listed in Genesis 14.

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Published in two parts in May, June 1978 in La Civilta Cattolica; reprinted in August and October 1978 in The Month.