More from Ebla

Translating the tablets found during the excavation of Ebla has continued to provide information that shows the reliability of the biblical account.

“In his book, ‘The Impact of Ebla,’ [Clifford] Wilson notes that Ebla tablets date back to around 2300 B.C., or perhaps a hundred years earlier (p. 15), one text ascribing to it a population of some 260,000 (p. 14); that they evidence knowledge of sacrificial systems (p. 19), rituals, hymns, with 'all sorts of details about the administration of justice' (p. 24), with reference in particular to sex offences in a way 'remarkably close' to what is given in Deuteronomy:22:22-30 [22] If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. [23] If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; [24] Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. [25] But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: [26] But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter: [27] For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. [28] If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; [29] Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. [30] A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
See All.... Further customs, names and culture fit to a singular degree with what the Bible attests of Abraham, whose date has at times past been challenged with routine spiritual effrontery based on ignorance, rationalism and possibly evolutionism. In fact, the Bible and its cultural correlates are constantly confirmed, and Ebla goes further.

It even gives names in striking accord with those in the Bible for a period of such antiquity, including Eber in the Biblical Table of Nations (Genesis:10:24And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
See All...), one which Wilson (op.cit., p. 66) considers to "have some ethnic connection with 'Hebrews'". Indeed, as Allbright points out - that ancient Table of Nations itself, in Genesis: stands absolutely alone in ancient literature without remote parallel even among the Greeks' “(“Recent Discoveries in Bible Lands,” found in Young's Analytical Concordance, 22nd edition, p. 30).