Hi John ... When not the property of their god. ... We also encounter such in the Hebrew Bible, in both the masculine and feminine forms, qd$ and qd$h. These...
John ... Do you have any more information on Anat's status as qadishtu, John?, I can find no reference to it in Driver's 'Myths'. The title oft rendered...
AJ wrote: As practitioners, free to take lovers as they wished ... Interesting: nzr means 'separate' in Hebrew. end quote Interesting again because haram in...
AJ wrote: And what is the meaning of bit sabiti, 'house of rest'? An interesting name for a brothel, don't you think? But if the word is cognate with Hebrew...
Regarding whether Jesus was Samaritan or Jewish. The conquest of the region of Galilee by Aristobulus (104-103 BCE), the son of John Hyrcanus (134-104 BCE)...
... AJ, While scholars today sometimes confuse the various goddesses, Anat, Asherah and Astarte, it is clear that in the past, in fact, these goddesses were...
John ... Thanks, John - I'd forgotten about Egypt. What I'm more interested in, though, is your take on the word sabiti (from bit sabiti). Cognates? aj...
Thanks John. Your post explains why after his "crucifixion" Jesus had his followers follow him to Galilee where he would be out of reach of the Judean...
Egads: That's what I get for not reading the post really carefully. Somehow I read BCE as CE. However, come to think of it, Josephus reports that the Samaritan...
Holly ... Some opiate-: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AncientBibleHistory/message/54714 Greek medicine identified four choli, or 'galls'-: Ichor - yellow bile ...
Holly ... The Samaritan temple was built circa 330 BCE. It was destroyed in 109/108 BCE by Johannes Hyrcanus. The Samaritans did not rebuild it, but rather...
Greetings ... This is suggested by archaeology. Others date it's construction to early in the 4th century BCE, based upon a reading of the various sources...
Regarding Qadishtu and Sabiti I wrote ... AJ replied ... My pleasure :-) (I still look forward to us Perthites possibly meeting some time) ... You made the...
John ... Jean Bottéro suggests online that it means 'ale makeress', and William J. Slater suggests that it's derived form the masculine sabi. I still like the...
Additional background. The Seleucids The Seleucids brought to the problem of the administration of Palestine a different tradition from that which had been...
In the Bible Daniel is described as living in Babylon for the entire duration of the Babylonian empire, a period of 72 years. He arrived during the last year...
There have been many interpretations of the Golden statue in the book of Daniel, down to a proposition that the ten toes of the feet of Clay and Iron mixed are...
I suppose the answer by now is clear: that being that there is no etymology for the word "god" showing its origin and how the "generic" sun god of old became...
The conventional Sea Peoples Invasion paradigm requires that locally produced Mycenaean inspired pottery, labeled Philistine Bichrome (in some cases shortly...
I believe one would do well to read Walter Mattfeld's intricate article on the Sabbath: http://www.bibleorigins.net/ShabbatShapattu.html [His other article on...
Hi John and all, to recap... ... It was much more complex and quite different than this Richard. [follows a long description concerning the title qadishtu and...
All, I splashed out on Eisenbraun's recent "Ugarit at 75" which contains the proceeding of a symposium held in Illinois in 2005 which presentations by many of...
http://www.jews-for-allah.org/Hebrew/Koran/alfatiha/alfatiha.pdf Now we have more information about semitic languages even in the 21st century. Two of them...
George wrote ... George, although there is claim about the clamour, the actual Sumerian texts on which this is based is closer to "stench" rather than...
Marc wrote ... Mark, that is not so, The modern word God comes from the Old English "god" a masculine word meaning "supreme being, deity". This in turn cpmes...
Sorry Marc - I have written Mark in the text. Comes of not proof reading what I write well enough. Please accept my apology for any offence caused. John ... ...
John ... Yes, thank you John. My chief interest in this part of the story of Danel is due to the fact that the Ugaritic seems to imply that the protagonist...
John ... What most took my fancy was that all these metals are ultimately extract from rock. Is there a religious intention in this prophecy, beside the...
