George: The Arabian view is that the most ancient Arabs, the Qahtani Arabs who lived on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, pre-dated the Adnani Arabs...
George: Then we would assume that the tribe of Judah somehow became the tribe of Levi but retained the name of Judah. I think that the more likely scenario is...
... ============ While my personal observation agrees with Walter, just as I can't separate Allah from Muhammad, even though Muhammad is not considered to be...
... shall ... ================ I read this after replying to John about Jesus and YHVH. Now I can quote this to justify saying YHV/WH is the truth, Lord/El...
trust that enclosed IS ''on topic'' as herods emerged during ''maccabbean'' era. any idea what color... traditionally....is associated with the herod clan...
Holly, I'm not quite sure what your conclusion is here. But I think my own point still stands. The Minaeans, as known via texts not much older than the 600's...
George: The Mineans are a lot older than 600 BCE. Read the following site: http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Arabia.html Iron Age Period Onwards From circa...
HOlly, I believe you have completely missed the point I made in an earlier post. I believe you and I used the very same URL, but I used others as well. ... ...
Holly, YOu write: " Then we would assume that the tribe of Judah somehow ... This approach supposes that the Levites were a tribe. If the Levites did not exist...
Hi Louis ... Nice observation. Is this Biblical or archaeological information? Have you any idea when these cisterns were dug? I wonder how many persons the...
Lloyd ... But Lloyd, given that the text tells us explicitly that the Tree of Life stood in the middle of the garden, whilst merely mentioning the Tree of...
Hi Holly What do you know about this Iblis? The name's supposed to mean 'he despaired' - are there any cognates? And whilst we're on the subject, does the...
AJ: I can't find the root of Iblis in my root word dictionary, so I will tell you what Islamic scholars have told me. Iblis means "the hidden one" because you ...
Lloyd ... This is the common interpretation, yet I see nothing in the Biblical text which suggests that Adam and Eve were originally immortal. In fact, given...
George: I think there are other ways of confirming the existence of a people without uncovering their written records as pottery and other artifacts. Take Care...
George: The problem with this is that the 'lawi were priests to Wadd, a name that appears in Dwd's name and also in his son's name Yddiah (the refernce to yah...
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/name.htmlt At least, inspite of what looks like to me is intimidation, it does say that the Bible itself...
From the Jewish Virtual Library. Is this accurate? ======================== The Qur'an (in Anglicized form: Koran ) is certainly the greatest literary work in...
In the same article of Names in the Jewish Virtual Library, I found this to be insightful. ================ The first Name used for God in scripture is Elohim....
Holly ... The following is taken from a post from last October-: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AncientBibleHistory/message/47935 "1) The name Chenephres...
Greetings ... Trinitarian Christians don't believe that the Father was nailed to a tree, so why should they believe that the Son (/Holy Spirit) performed any...
Ethel ... As I've stated often, Ethel, the Qabalists use this fact to argue that the name Elohim actually refers to a dual-gendered deity. The problem (as I...
Mac: Not exactly accurate. The Quran is widely translated and translation is not a blasphemy at all. The translations are not considered to be the Quran, ...
AJ: Thanks for the info. I have often thought that Moses was adopted by Snofru but expelled by Khufu. They were probably brought up as brothers from whence...
Holly, You raise a combination of facts and issues. And I will ponder them. But perhaps the most important item is: " The problem with this is that the 'lawi...
George: I am not an expert in Hebrew, but I think the term lvy is a version of alwy (alawi spelled with an ayn which is silent in Hebrew) which means upper,...
... =================== I use the word "Freudian" too with respect to sexual interpretations of anything. I don't think you need to be adversely effected by ...
Holly, You write: " I am not an expert in Hebrew, but I think the term lvy ... Holly, wayyyyy too many people get hung up one Hebrew spellings. When reaching...
AJ The information is from Ronny Reich, who is (or was) the chief archaelogist of Jerusalem. He dates the earliest "urban settlements" in Jerusalem to the MB,...
