John ... What will not work, John, the fact that you just proved for me that the Biblical story of Joseph instituting granaries is a fiction? Obviously if...
John ... Why would the inhabitants of Canaan name a large part of their district after the grandson son of an Egyptian Pharaoh at a time when he was losing...
Yair ... Nice observation, Yair: the Hebrew Script does suggest that the city of Bethhoron was in existence at the time of the Conquest - it's named as a...
... Hi John. In general yes, but there is also another point to consider, political expediency. Take for instance Beth-Shean, one particular level of...
AJ wrote: It's also interesting that the name Ephraim should alternatively be translated 'double ash-heap' and Ephrath 'ash-heap' (as well as 'doubly fertile'...
Who were the "sons of God". In Hebrew the word for God was "El" not "Elohim". When we examine the literature of the ancient Near East we find that the word...
Jon, There is also the Jewish tribe, Nephthali, which may derive from (mere)nptah. This also seems related ti the Nephilim that I have just posted on. Were...
Aj wrote ... AJ, this is exactly what annoys me so much with so called Biblical scholarship. There seems to be an almost obsessive attempt to relate the...
AJ asked ... AJ why is the Avon River, that flows through Northam in Western Australia as well as through Shakespeare's Stratford, called the Avon, in English...
aj, I disagree, according to the Bible Ephraim and Manasseh were descendant from the Joseph and the daughter of his sister Dinah and Shechem son of Hamor. The...
... John: Here's an alternative theory to the sons of god being from the family of El. Psalm 82 says; Psa 82:1 ¶ [[A Psalm of Asaph.]] God standeth in the...
... that ... must ... relate ... at ... Yes. Genesis does contain the archetypes, and archetypes do constitute the first instance of an entity repeated many...
Holly I think we need to look more closely at this concept of "Son of God". Firstly we can say that there seems to a difference between the concept of...
Hello Folks I have found in Chancellor Bay, a number of paralells with the Joseph story, as he is the only known ancient Egyptian example of 1. An asiatic who...
John ... There's three actually, John: El, Eloah and Elohim. ... You are referring to the Ugaritic `elim, which is not quite the same. This word is also found...
John ... Come on, John, the Empire's power was in it's heyday when those places were named (which is exactly what I'm getting at), not in decline: as my missus...
John Croft wrote: I think we need to look more closely at this concept of "Son of God". Firstly we can say that there seems to a difference between the concept...
AJ You wrote ... AJ, I would here refer you to the excellent Wikipedia article on Shaddai" "In the Septuagint and other early translations Shaddai was ...
AJ wrote ... AJ, placenames tend to be amongst the most conservative of features of a landscape. I have no difficulty seeing them as coming from a really ...
John ... Yes, John, I am aware that there is a number of theories which suggest alternative meanings for this word, but the fact still remains that, even if...
You cut off the end of the story in your Matthew 15 quote. What about Matthew 15:27-28? 27: And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which ...
SMJ: I don't think the last 2 verses puts a slant of the story at all. The author of this gospel has Jesus insults the woman, the woman acknowledges that the...
John wrote: The article continues"...Another theory is that Shaddai is a derivation of a Semitic stem that appears in the Akkadian shadû ("mountain") and...
Holly, Jesus asked the woman if the "food for the Children (chosen people)" should be given to the dogs (non-chosens)? The woman knew what he meant (that she...
Mat 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; my daughter...
Holly ... Ararat? ... If the source of Yahwehistic monotheism is to be sought in the Persian religion, then there's reasonto think that other elements found in...
Holly ... You forgot to mention the fact that she not only prostrated herself physically before him, but she also prostrated herself socially-: "And she said,...
