Any interest in the book, "The Gold of Exodus" by Howard Blum, which puts Mt.Sinai in Midian (now Saudi Arabia). The Red Sea Crossing is put at the Gulf of...
Here's an interesting discussion of how the Scythians expressed the "Tree of Life" in their theology. George http://www.athenapub.com/8goldnom.htm ... Gold of...
Aris, Do you think that Jethro gave Moses the guidelines for the book of Leviticus and other priestly statutes? George ... seems logical that he would take...
I finally got around to reading my current David Brown catalog and I must admit it is the nicest one yet. These several selections seem to border on the...
re: "the antlers were seen as branches in the Tree of Life, which themselves evolved into birds in an eternal life-cycle..." George, if this is true do you...
How about dating the Exodus from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom's Twelfth Dynasty and reading what the Egyptians who lived through the Exodus events had to say...
George, I'm confused about Dilmun. John said that it was Bahrein, which according to Sumerian tradition was their original home. But in the Gilgamesh epic...
George, I thought of something else too. If Dilmun is in fact Bahrein, and the Sumerians did in fact migrate to Mesopotamia from here, then maybe there's a...
... Sorry, I don't really want to do hand-stands and I am poor at acrobatics...however, my comment is different from yours in what way? However, only feel free...
James, Let me understand what you are asking. Are you saying that the Hittites had a KNOWN concept of "rebirth"? Or are you asking if we MIGHT infer that they...
Aris, As I've said before, there is no SHORTAGE of "exodus-like" events in Egyptian history. We need to look at the actual Hebrew texts to decide WHICH event...
Michael, This discussion appears to make the best effort to explain what "Dilmun" has to do with "East". To sum it up, it would seem that the "Dilmun" being...
Michael, I'm VERY skeptical that Herodotus knew anything about Semitic links to Sumeria when Sumerians still existed. I'm satisfied that if the Sumerians used...
Peter, ' You write: "Sorry, I don't really want to do hand-stands and I am poor at ... way?" I have no idea how you meant your comment. Feel free to explain...
George, Are you sure that we can be certain that these assumptions are true? How can you be sure that the Philistines were'nt present in Palestine yet? If...
George, Another thing regarding Egyptian control of Palestine in the 14th century. I think it's possible that Egyptian political rule of Palestine was more in...
Michael, You write: "Are you sure that we can be certain that these assumptions are true?" Since we can't be POSITIVE about most anything from biblical...
Michael, And yet SEE how the Jerusalem and Palestinian scribes fixate on Egypt as their lifeline! If we read Redford, we see that AFTER the 14th century, there...
One of the key locations in determining the direction of the Exodus route is the place called Migdol. If we can find a site for this 'Migdol', then it will go...
It was a question, not an assumption. The Antler idea as an image of rebirth. The Stag or the Gazelle -- they both have antlers? And they do sprout more...
Say, after learning that I couldn't buy Redford's book locally for its $15 price, I went to the library and zeroxed most of it - but I'm afraid I'll be reading...
Dear Jon, Let me first say I AM IMPRESSED by your research ! For EVERYTHING you have said, I TOO _ONCE_ thought the SAME THOUGHTS !!! But, I am older and wiser...
Dear Dora, Have you thought about making a "Inter-Library Loan" request ? I do it all the time for books that are out of print. Just recently my small local...
The Mesopotamian flood myth has the survivor, Utnapishtim and wife settled in Dilmun at the MOUTH OF THE RIVERS. I take this to be the MOUTH of the Tigris and...
James, So... based on your last post I would say: 1) If the "stag" element of the Hittite culture is from their "Indo-Euro" roots.... then I think it COULD...
Jon, Walter writes: "Why Suez for my "Migdol" location ? It has the "MORNING TIDAL ACTION" mentioned in the biblical narratives ! High tides can get up to 5 ...
What do we see in the Old Testament that seems to be unusually tied to Mede and Persian religious temperments? 1) A Persian "Chariot Cult of the Sun".... we ...
George, perhaps it is unfair that I continue discussing something like this without reading some more into it. The things I was saying is natural speculation...
Hi, ... Cheremissian, ... There isn't a common consensus among linguists as to Nostratic and Eurasiatic. Bomhard sees Eurasiatic as a branch of his Nostratic ...
