Just got it. If it weren't for this group, it wouldn't be easy to grasp. Just looking at the index got a valuable term to describe how I use the bible...
Hi all, I am very aware that there have been a large number of posts on this, and I am only just catching up with backlog, so please forgive any repetition of...
Hi Walter, ... A black and white photograph exists on page 470 of Edwin M. Yamauchi. _Persia and the Bible_. Baker Books. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1990, 1996....
Giveon comments that people all over Palestine and the Philistines are at times depicted wearing this tasseled kilt or "loincloth". Even while insisting it...
Should Canaanites ahve shown up in the reliefs of prisoners taken by Ramses III? Below answers part of my question. Which particular Syrians are shown with ...
... oblique remark ... appeared to ... hanging behind ... Dora. This animal tail is seen in a few reliefs, it appears to be hanging at the rear of a person...
Jon: "Syria" was a big place, loosely defined, and could include parts of Anatolia, depending on who was using the term how. Do you have more specific...
... George. Ok, well lets have a look.... ... Oh, yes I fully understand this, we see similar expressions for places that previously are not known by any other...
... from? Dora. No, sorry, we only have Egyptian inscriptions to work with. ... They ... The Egyptian reliefs consistantly show Hittites wearing long, almost ...
George. Just clarify something for me, and maybe when John returns to 'un- busy' status, he would be so kind as to confirm if he agrees with you or not. ...
... [edit] ... George. Sometimes the strangest things happen quite by accident. Some months ago I presented quotes from J. Norman Lockyer, Herodotus & Diodorus...
... Dear George, By WHO'S DEFINITION is _the end_ of the Kings story Post-Exilic ? The story is EXILIC, not Post-Exilic. The last "datable" monarch in Kings is...
OK - they are more alike than they looked. But some I need to confirm if different names for the same place. (1)Cherb....(2)Aleppo....(3)Khilibu. ... Where...
Dear Richard, Thankyou for the info on the Hittites and their chariot-gods (the storm god having a chariot too). I had OVERLOOKED ("forgotten") this when I...
... and in ... so, what ... it an ... horse and ... the same ... Astarte ... sun god to ... Ark. Baruch ... of Yahweh ... with cattle ... Dear Dora, I AGREE...
... Dora. Do you remember your poste #35515?, you made a list of places, which included the following: "Mesa = Masu, land in Syria or SW Asia Minor. Kezwden....
Jon, I believe the paragraph brings "Sin" (as in Sinai) into the picture as another example of a place named after the ore it produces: the sinai's copper...
Jon, So, as you can see, I have no quarrel with "delta islands". It's when you use the "Jon Methodology" to question things like the Mitanni empire East of...
... I'm always here. I just haven't seen anything worth commenting upon that wouldn't drag me into a series of replies taking up more time than I can afford...
... resurrection had come from Zoroastrian sources, the fact is that there is no ... exist in the Gathas or any pre-Hellenic Persian texts. This leads me to ...
... George. We never really touched on the crux of the matter with Mitanni. My questions arose because in the Amarna Tablets, Tushratta signs his letters as...
Gabe ? wrote in answer to George ... Resurrection theology, I feel, Gabe, had a time horizon deeper than the frustration and opposition to the Roman army. The...
Dora, Every time I think I have posted ENOUGH on the post-exilic scenario, because surely everyone understands the basic premises by now (even if they don't...
Richard, You write: "However, Gurney also describes a ritual carried out for which the following description is given "In the morning a decorated chariot...
... George and Walter, There are some finer distinctions to be made. Scholars such as Tov believe that there were scribal traditions in both Palestine and ...
