Footnote 7 – Did the Ark Stop at Elephantine?

TAD A4.7. The letter, although well preserved, contains many erasures, corrections, words inserted above the line, and so on. The writing appears to have been transcribed hastily compared to other documents in the collection. Another fragmentary copy of this letter was also found (TAD A4.8). The date of the letter is determined by using the conversion table in R.A. Parker and W.H. Dubberstein’s Babylonian Chronology 626 B.C.–A.D. 75 (Providence, 1956).