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The purpose of this study is to investigate the possible historical continuity of the Eblaic personal names Mikaya and Mikail down to the Biblical names Mikayahu and Mikael, and also is to demonstrate the fact that those names in the onomasticon of Ebla reappearing in the Bible does not always authorize us to make the Eblaites the forefathers of Israel.
We would be well adviced to discuss first the cultural and historical continuity in Mesopotamia and Syria, though the cultural continuity in Syria can be, in a sense, traced from Ebla tablets through the Ugaritic texts straight into the Bible as Dahood claims. It is too early to judge how much bearing these new finds in Tell Mardikh will have on biblical research, but from what little of the Ebla material have been published to date, the harvest is going to be much ampler than Dahood expects.
