George I'm sure that you remember the 'Cleavers of the Sea vs. Cleavers of the Day' debate. Well, I just located the Ugaritic, and you may be surprised to...
George ... Thank you, George. ... The depiction of a local deity in the form of Zeus in the Persian period would seem to suggest widespread Greek influence...
Hi John Whilst researching possible cognates for this es-Sara (apparently the area which lay between the Red and Dead Seas, ie. the Sinai Peninsula), and...
Greetings "Dusares "(Duš-Šara) The chief god of the Nabataeans. The name means 'he (the god) of eš-Šara', this being the area between the Red Sea and the...
George ... Oh yes, I forgot to mention: I've suggested in the past that your male/female pantheon is encapsulated in the phrase El Shaddai, where El is the...
Dear All I'm new in your group and thank you so much for welcoming. First Please excuse me for my bad written english language: I'm french, old women in...
Walter has sent me some interesting details that follow-up on these YHD coins. Gitler and Lemaire (2003) apparently understand the deity on the winged wheel is...
... No, not constructed from the bible. circular reasoning based on the bible text is addressed by F & S. I don't believe Finkelstein says David did not exist...
... role ... to ... new ... compiled ... aren't ... the ... Israelite monotheism is a construct to legitimize religious centralization in Jerusalem and...
Bergen, I name several sources (from AJ and from Walter). If you can find a recent reference that refutes their reading of three letters, then we should have...
Richard ... Le Maire didn't read the inscription as YHW, Rich, he merely identified the deity upon the coin as Yahweh - not surprising, given that Yahweh was...
Bergen ... The Seleucids are a little too late to be used for a counter- argument, Bergen: they were, after all, a second century phenomenon, and all these...
Dorlaie ... All information is of interest to us, Dorlaie: I myself speak German, and there are a number of other non-anglophonic Continentals on the list (so...
Bergen ... "The Yehud coinage consists of a series of tiny silver coins which seem to have been minted in Judah, most probably in Jerusalem, during the fourth...
Richard ... No, I am not saying that they said that David didn't exist, I'm saying that they argue that David did exist, and use the bytdwd found on the Tel...
Hi all. I'm currently working on worldbuilding for a fantasy novel and I've recently discovered the Habiru. I'm planning on basing my fantasy culture on them...
... akhenaten I made a statement - deuteronomistic history 7th century - genesis post exile. You're going off on your own tangent without responding to my...
... archaeological ... that ... named ... found ... I thought tel dan refers to jehoram king of the house of david? but what does that have to do with when the...
Willard, Lennart Moller offers a parallel comparison (identification) of Joseph and Imhotep in his book, "The Exodus Case." He also offers a website on the...
Richard ... Akhenaten's religious reforms were not monotheistic. ... No. ... I don't see why people feel the need to enunciate the order in which the various...
AJ: I agree that Sara was probably the first wife. It would make sense, that if Ishmael was Abraham's only son, he would want a back-up to seal his lineage....
George wrote ... Agreed, but we also need to know the degree to which the Tale of Two Brothers was preserved in Egypt too. So far the only copy we have of the...
AJ wrote ... AJ, i fact Jerusalem was not the solitary cultic centre in the south. Cultic centres have been found associated with Kadesh Barnea, Beersheba,...
Aris wrote ... Exodus Case" offers a comprehensive parallel list of items of match. I also move the date of Joseph to the Old Kingdom. ... the brothers as...
