Endnote 5 – The Raw Material
See W. F. Albright, “The Role of the Postdiluvian Patriarchs in Hebrew History,” Journal of Biblical Literature 43 (1924). I failed to catch an error which was published in my earlier article “Assessing Ebla,” BAR 04:01. My statement regarding Phaliga, Sanugi, Til-Turakhi, Nakbur, and Haran implied that these cities had already been found in the Ebla archives. The statement should have specified that these cities have thus far been referred to in previously discovered cuneiform documents of a much younger age than the Ebla texts.