Abshalom writes:
... the common building material of that time in Judea was stone, the writers would not have direct or even historic knowledge of mud brick construction from a distant past.
Pardon my interjection here but weren't these people familiar with the mud brick constructions of Mesopotamia? Pretty much everything in that region was made of mud brick; most notably their 'pyramids.'
Surely there was information about Egypt available to scholars of the time. Don't the poor of Egypt and Mesopotamia still utilize mud brick for some constructions? It is certainly an 'available' material.
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