Hi Marianne What's your opinion on the attached? Jon reckons that the crossed circle at the end is the determinative, though it seems to me that the tree ...
Many welcomes, Carlos You wrote, ... It's just a pity that Finkelstein can't prove that any of the relevant texts predate the Persian occupation. But you say...
... Don't you just hate it when that happens?, thats what happend to me with my "Did I miss something" post, I thought it was going straight to George. Good...
... My Tübinger bible atlas only gives names up to 1920, but there is nothing resembling 'Tze-Elim' at those coordinates. I'm sorry but it does still appear...
Dear Members. Some of you will be aware of a recent development concerning chronological links between the Aegean and Egypt/Levantine archaeology. The next few...
These articles report on a carbon dating study that places teh explosion of Santorini more towards 1628 BC than towards 1580 or 1520. There is a problem with...
... suspects which triggered a memory. Perhaps this was only a speculation by a writer (his name now forgotten), but I remember how "spot on" it seemed to be....
An interesting tidbit. Prof. Lemche resigned immediately after posting the item from Jeffrey Gibson. There was no public discussion by him regarding this ...
Marianne, Let me clarify the point the source was trying to make. They beat the suspect first. Without any interrogation. Then, after the suspect (or witness)...
... Correct, like I already said, Tze-elim is a modern settlement, a kibbutz founded in 1950 but named after the palm tree's that grow in the area. There are...
... make. They beat the suspect first. Without any interrogation. Then, after the suspect (or witness) was pretty well distracted and disoriented by the...
Jon ... I thought that the word Wadi signified a valley whose river ran dry during summer (and Nahal by extension a river which doesn't)? ... And let's not...
Ok, AJ, so I am nit picking. The word for river is nhr. Nhl means to drink and nhla means drink, gulp, swallow. However, mnhl means watering place, spring, ...
... I remember we had a discussion about this not too long ago. Since then I have read Hoffmeier's latest work which identifies the lakes around el-Ballah as...
Jon & AJ: Ok, here is my take on the meaning of ym swf. Ym does mean open sea in Arabic but the verb ym means to go, turn, wend one's way. So, we have a...
Holly ... Mnhl is doubtless derived form nhl, but have both nhl and nhr Semitic roots? I'm particularly interested in the R <-> L thing: I note that nhl ...
Jon ... One problem I have with this line of argument is the spelling: twfy in Egyptian as opposed to $vp in Hebrew - when did an Egyptian 't' equate to a...
... If Elim was already in that area then why did they turn back towards the desert of el-Arish? (though considering that the authors may've stuck to the form...
... Do have a reference for this, the Egyptian use of "at the end" for the marshes at the Orontes bend? Strabo (16.2), and others, say that the Orontes river...
... If Elim was already in that area then why did they turn back towards the desert of el-Arish? (though considering that the authors may've stuck to the form...
... Could you tell me the meaning of the name "Bir el-Meshash"? Or "el-Mushash/Mishash", a well, about 15km south of Beer-Sheba. (The well that Moses dicovers...
Italo: A mshwsh is a napkin or "fluid absorber". Msha means to soak in water or suck the marrow from the bone. Msh (mim seen ha) means to wipe, to clean, to...
AJ: This one is interesting. The word nql in Arabic means to move away, carry, transport and is most likely related to the Hebrew nhl. Usually the "h" (there...
Holly ... So how's the name Mose spelled in Arabic? I notice also that the root ms' in Hebrew means 'loan, debt, pledge, usury': not only does this perhaps...
Holly ... I was eluding to the possibility that one of these two words, nhr or nhl, is not Semitic in origin. Nhr obviously is, as we also encounter it in...
AJ: Moses is spelled mwsy and pronounced moosa. An you seem to be on the right track here. The root of both msh/msyh (annoint/messiah) and mwsy may be ms ...
AJ: It seems that nhl is Semitic in origin as the root has derivatives as nhl means to drink, nhla means drink, draught, gulp and mnhl means watering place,...
