The most radical of all is Garbini,12 who rejects the entire OT except some elements from the Persian and Hellenistic eras. But such a reduction of usable historical data to those materials that are verifiable from existing artifacts or epigraphical remains could lead to premature foreclosing of the case. For example, Yamauchi reminds us that it was not until 1932 that we had any external verification for the exile of Jehoiachin in Babylon from the tablets of E. Weidner. Nor did we get attestation