Alright, wikipedia has better evidence than I expected, although I’m also not going to read the referenced book.
Wink’s piece is coherent and well-put, but doesn’t seem like great evidence—I cannot tell if he mentally wrote his conclusion before or after making those arguments, and I can’t tell which elements are actual features of ANE culture identified by historians and which are things that just sounded reasonable to him.
Alright, wikipedia has better evidence than I expected, although I’m also not going to read the referenced book.
Wink’s piece is coherent and well-put, but doesn’t seem like great evidence—I cannot tell if he mentally wrote his conclusion before or after making those arguments, and I can’t tell which elements are actual features of ANE culture identified by historians and which are things that just sounded reasonable to him.