It's like most things in Judaism, it belonged to others first. In particular Zoroaster. The Muslims also believe in 7 heavens. Try these on for size. ...
... George. I do have a few extracts from ANET, but more to the point I have several volumes of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, very new in comparison...
... I think the wording here is very 'choice'. To mention Medinet-Habu usually implies the Ramses III temple of that name, however, what is not so commonly...
Hi George, ... Does anyone have the ANET at hand? Pages 290 to 291 are being cited for showing Phoenicians ... Yes I do and I'll check. The pages cited are in...
... Ahh, as it happens I have only ANET 291, (but then it jumps to 301). So now I see where you are coming from. ANET 291. "I called up the kings of the...
Adad-Nirari III, (810-873), in his expedition to Palestine. "(crossed Nairi-lands to)....as far as the Great Sea of the Rising Sun, from the banks of the...
David, ... They are ok. And certainly I very much agree that the concept of "7 Heavens" is a borrowing from Persian mythology. But I'm still looking for a...
Jon, I concur with your comments on this Assyrian text... and on the problems of the translation. The "AND" could very well be an invention of the translator. ...
Jon, I've been under the impression that the Assyrians settled down to the following use: "Amurru-land" and "Hatti-land" were more or less the SAME region. ...
Well, I decided to investigate Zoroastracism because even the Talmud scholar has incorporated in his personal database many of the subjects addressed on this...
I thought Amurru didn't EXIST in this period. Giveon puzzled me by citing a 20th dynasty or so text that mentioned Amor. Amor was adjacent to Hatti - and its...
Philistines would have to have been around early enough to be deported. The way I understand it, their appearance pretty much correspond to the end of Egypt in...
Well, the Egyptians listed them together on the same document. Amurru, Hatti - and Philistines. Here it is. 20th dynasty. Ramses III. Fortress-portal at...
OK, so the Assyrians called Syria "Amurru" even though Amurru had not existed for almost a thousand years by their time - and sometimes they called the region...
Jon: Who is the speaker in this passage, and in what time is he writing? Also, I'm mixed up. Is the speaker's viewpoint north or south? Is he speaking of...
I'm interested in the fact that anyone of the level of a king of a nearby empire ever thought that Judah was Hittite territory. Who exactly recorded that this...
King of Judah... king of Moab... king of Edom... These countries weren't around by those names in the 13th century. Forget about Assyria. Of what time is this...
... Dora. My poste was in response to George who mentioned Essarhaddon. The quote I provided was from prism 'B', by Essarhaddon, (680-669 BC). The "other-side"...
I now realize you know you're talking about post 9th century, which makes me all the more puzzled. How did the Assyrians even REMEMBER Amurru? Yours, Dora...
Dora, You write: "I'm interested in the fact that anyone of the level of a king of a nearby empire ever thought that Judah was Hittite territory." This is the...
Dora, Doesn't your conclusion help support the idea that the bible is NOT about events of the 13th century? Regards, George ... Forget ... Assyria in mid ... ...
George: I can see that this is the very point of your query, but what exactly do you know about why the Assyrians categorized Palestine as Hatti? Did they...
I noticed the abbreviations. "hist." is historical data. I searched and found only two uses of this abbreviation in the timeline. 1. Mahavira founder of...
Dora, Perhaps if Jon could cite a text where the OLDER Assyrian scribes mentioned the Amurru SPECIFICALLY..... vs. the more recent scribes that mentioned the...
Dora, You have hit upon the crux of the dilemma. You ask "What exactly do I know about why the Assyrians categorized Palestine as Hatti?" Gosh, I wish I...
George, actually I'm as exclusively preoccupied by 14th through 12th century events as you are by 9th through 7th century ones. It took me some time to realize...
... George. With this in mind I quickly looked through some R.I.M. volumes and I can see an inconsistant definition of the use of "Hatti-land" in the time of...
Here we go again in John's post to me about the Shosou - the Assyrians mentioned them, by their version of the Egyptian word Aamou (Giveon's Frenchized version...
