... Interesting. Written in what, Linear A, B? References would be good. ... Yes, but there is no ethnicity in art. Scholars learned their lesson when...
... I mixed things up, Hittite was indeed used as the diplomatic language. The Hittites probably communicated with Ahhiyawa in Hittite. And Hittite was even...
... "fragments of six to nine faience plaques", to be precise. ... In Egyptian hieroglyphs. Of the six places in the Aegean where plaques with A.'s cartouche...
Italo asked ... Yes, but Labarna was merely the title of the Hittite king (Like Caesar or Augustus in Roman history). ... Italo, is there any archaeological...
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/jewfaq/mashiach.htm I see now that there is beginning to be in tv documentaries about the bible that they are starting to say the...
This is a site that cites the bible's treatment of this subject. http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/says_about/menstruation.html This has a lot to do with...
Jon ... What intrigues me regarding the red/black designs of this so-called bi- chromal pottery is the fact that it has also been found in Nubia (Kerma ...
... A.J. When you say "it" has been found, are you suggesting pottery with a painted geometric design incorporating birds &/or amphibians? or some unrelated...
... "..the Phoenicians with the Syrians of Palestine furnished three hundred [ships]; for their equipment, they had on their heads helmets very close to the...
This may or may not be a topic for this group; yet having been a member of the original ANE since 1996 and now this group I feel it is time to take action. It...
Now that I've been shown the right path, using the subject of shemesh and torah, I realize I'd have to go backwards in time to Iraq BCE and get acquainted with...
Just peeked at thiz subject. Studying music ed, it turns out you can compare the evolution of chords, rythm, etc. across the globe and find out that there's...
Dear Readers: Ancient oaths: When someone "pledged his life" in an oath, did it have a more grim meaning in the ancient world? Josephus mentions those Essenes...
Here's a thread that I've frequently pondered: Were the "scales" over Paul's eyes and the caddle prod mentioned in the story by Saul/Paul a veiled to his being...
As you can see, a number of posts I wrote AFTER the welcome from holiday arrived BEFORE the welcome back. Such are the vagaries of electronic communication! ...
Paul says that he takes on the nature of his audience in order to reach them. I have to wonder if Paul didn't join a mystery cult in Tarsus and in the process...
In reference to the central food of the Essene community, was "the purity" a reference to a vegetarian food? Maccabees refers to the zealots as not touching...
Some time ago I suggested that when the Israelites arrived across the Jordan that they adopted a number of Canaanite traditions. The reason being, if the...
George: Paul probably had an eye disease which caused cataracts and the author of Acts is claiming that the eye disease was miraculously removed. However,...
kheper-i kheper kheperu kheper-kuy m kheperu n Khepri kheper m sep tepy... "[when] I became, the becoming became, I have become the becoming [the form] of...
Jon ... No, I think Italo is suggesting that the tradition of the Red Sea crossing came from the same place that the Phoenicians came from ('upon the...
Jon I wrote, ... Should have just checked Schumacher, should I? nfr Pwnt - der Gute von Punt I note also that Per-Heh spells it pwn.t. Am I to understand this...
Lloyd ... We also find the phrase jw.j-jm.j, translated by Gerhard Fecht as 'I am what I am', in the 183rd chapter of Egyptian Book of the Heavenly Cow. It's...
... My impression is that either the exodus theme belonged to the shared heritage of the wider area, or - as the Persians already group them together - that...
Amazing isn't it when you really dig into the Bible:) Has there been a list of all the uses of the Olive Tree back then? It might help us even today. I'm...
AJ: Looked up the word Bun (no "p" in Arabic)in my trusty root word dictionary and found that it meant coffee beans. Coffee beans originated in the Kaffa...
