King Ahab in El Amarna
by Damien F. Mackey King Ahab, the husband of the notorious Queen Jezebel, was, in my opinion, the troublesome Lab’ayu of El Amarna. Revisionist choices for Lab’ayu While revisionists tend to consider El Amarna’s Lab’ayu as being a king of Israel, they differ as to which king he may have been. David Rohl thought that Lab’ayu might have been King Saul, before the monarchy became divided. A blogger has commented on this: http://anarchic-teapot.net/2013/03/david-rohl-how-to-fail-a-test-of-time/ “The main argument in Rohl’s book is that Labayu, a Hapiru/’Apiru ( no , the name is not related to the name Hebrew) chieftain who ruled Shachmu (the Biblical city of Shechem) mentioned in several Amarna Letters (and himself writing three of them) is the same person as the Biblical King Saul, and that the whole Amarna period is the same as the Early Monarchic Period of Israel. “Anyone famil...