Hi John ... Yes, this has always interested me too. ... I did stop short of mentioning this in my previous post, but the name Enlil doesn't seem to actually...
George ... I try to point out that your claim that there are no cuneiform references to Yahu is incorrect, and you accuse me of being obstructive. If you want...
George, aj and anyone else interested, I spent some time looking on JSTOR for information on the actual text and turned up two articles of interest, from 1978...
Hi all, here is part two, summarising Miller BASOR 239 (1980) pp43-46 "El the Creator of Earth". He discusses an Iron Age find from Jerusalem (7th- 8th...
Hello Richard, Yours was a long post full of pertinent considerations with a good cause for the unity of the text here under consideration. I cannot address...
AJ & George: I previously cited sites which show that the Minaeans worshipped Yah. I thought you might find this site interesting. It appears that the ...
AJ, Maybe I wasn't reading your post well. You write: "I try to point out that your claim that there are no cuneiform references to Yahu is incorrect, and you...
George ... Thank you, George. ... Actually information kindly supplied me by a fellow researcher outlines how it might be neither, yet we'll not delve into...
Richard You wrote ... Yes. ... Agreed. It is interesting how the Exodus story has been used as an inspiration all the way down to Modern times for that...
AJ wrote ... This is a hard one to establish. Certainly we find examples of the Gilgamesh Epic at Megiddo in the Late Bronze Age (possibly used in training...
Regarding Tarhunzas and Eas, Richard, it is interesting that the terminal *s seems to be syllabic convention not pronounced. Thus we find Suppiluliuma(s) is...
Holly wrote ... Interesting Holly. As one of the 70 Sons of El and Asherah, all of whom had a covenant with a local people, I would consider this highly ...
Hi John Further on the Eblaite creation myth: Richard has kindly forwarded me a document which presents the transliteration. Contrary to my earlier ...
Holly ... Whilst I can't comment upon the veracity of this information (as the evolution of language is not one of my fortes), it is interesting that Herodotus...
Babylon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It has been suggested that Babel be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) For other uses, see Babylon...
Holly quoted: The name of Yah was never spelled out in full in any of the inscriptions. The most often use form was Yah (hy), followed by El/Yah or Yah/El (hy...
Hi Holly ... Or it's the convention of the author in transliterating into English a Semitic language which runs right to left. The theory presumably also...
Hi John ... I am wondering if the Assyrian Asshur was perhaps a solar deity. Some have suggested this, others refute it. His iconography certainly does appear...
There may well be a solution to the long debated question of "what/where was Ahhiyawa?" Another Luwian/Phoenician bilingual inscription, this time from Cinekoy...
Richard and John, According to my idea, the victory over the Egyptians portrays Yahweh as orchestrating natural phenomena to defeat the Egyptians by calling...
... Absolutely so. Gen. 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of...
AJ, You have certainly created quite the "party" on your saying that I was ignoring evidence. Let's review these items: [1] You write: "...information kindly...
TO THE ABH LIST I think your suggestion, Holly, is marvelous! I had to stop right where I was (typing fingers hovering over the keyboard) and consider such a...
George ... No, he reads it as ia (ya). The 'neither' to which I referred was in reference to the fact that the cuneiform might also be read i, li or ni. ... ...
Hi Lloyd and all, apologies for not replying sooner but I was caught up with writing up some stuff about Merenptah's Israel Stele that needed doing with some ...
Hi again Lloyd, I found this a very interesting observation. I am enthusastic about seeing Egyptian connections in this song - my tendency is to look for them...
