Holly ... I would have thought that Moses' ark on the Nile was a better identification. And given the similarity between the legend of Moses' birth and ...
Holly, what I am looking for in the way of evidence is something more than an unsupported claim with no scholarhsip apparent. I don't find your suggested Thoth...
Hi Holly, O.E. eorše "ground, soil, dry land," ... sometime in the early Christian era... from protoGermanic (a language never encountered in written form but...
AJ: I looked up hbt in the Sumerian dictionary. Hebat (pronounced Hepa in Hurrian) is translated as the "lady of the skies." According to Wiki, Hebat was: ...
Hi Holly, You wrote ... Same question... for the words you believe to be Indo-European imported into Semitic, when is the first written attestation in each ...
Richard: Here is an extensive article on the Indo-Aryan loan word 'sar'-pgs 3,4,5. This article won't let me copy, so please read. It appears that the Hebrew...
Hi Holly, an interesting article, which I have indeed read (but will reread more slowly on another occasion). My impression is that the author is well aware...
ATTENTION ALL ABH READERS!: Walter Mattfeld, M.A. Ed., and sometimes frequent writer on this list, has been working on a tremendous work. I have seen his...
Archaeologists find ancient army HQ in Sinai Reuters, 28 May 2008 Egyptian archaeologists have discovered what they say was the ancient headquarters of the...
AJ, ... I would propose that the god of Ur-Shalim was the original deity of Jebus, and it was replaced with Yah. Well that would be the safe proposal. We read...
The URL for the discussion I just posted is: http://phoenicia.org/jerusalem.html It seems I accidentally pushed the send button and the post took off without...
That article is pretty good. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@... ... From: George To: AncientBibleHistory@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 01,...
Back in December 2006, I wrote a post that I'm now revising. I think it brings up some images that aren't usually considered. The question is WHAT did SHLM...
John, As always, you come up with an idea that makes me stop typing, and start thinking. If we have this marvelous "coincidence" that a Hurrian deity name that...
Richard asks: "... why this desire to see everything coming from Indo-European?" This is triggered by the Amarna evidence that places a Hurrian (or at least...
Ladies and Gentlemen: I don't see how SO MUCH discussion on Sanskrit is helping at all. Sanskrit is relevant to the Indo-European split that brings us to the...
Richard ... One of two cognate words need not derive from the other; both can share a common origin. Presence of 5000 year old Caucasian burial sites in the...
Holly ... No, Holly, all of this means that the Arabic habba 'gust, squall' sounds similar to a Hurrian word of completely different meaning. It certainly...
George ... Whose name was also pronounced Iabe by the later Samaritans: it seems probable that if Jerusalem was named for Shalim, that Jebus might too have...
George ... No, George, the word $lm most definitely means 'dusk'-: $lm* - god of dusk (S ii.18,19) * Acc.. $alam 'sunset', $alamu 'ending' Verses 12 to 19 of...
George ... So that it's the same as my scenario? ... Why? If Jebus was named for it's god, then presumably so too was Jerusalem. This leads to the assumption...
AJ, Firstly, I did not say that SHLM *doesn't* mean "dusk". It also means "shadow", and my point was that the term "shadow" or "dusk" are used when STATUE or...
Hi aj, you wrote ... Yes, I completely agree. Also that two words may coincidentally be similar especially when both transiterated into English. That is why I ...
Hi George, I wrote ... and you replied ... yes... but Amarna is something like 1400BCE and there have been claims that lots of common Semitic words from 1-2...
George ... I have long maintained that Biblical Solomon is in certain respects to be identified with Ugaritic Mot, largely based upon the similarity between...
The lost Ark: are the Germans on its trail? The Times [UK], May 13, 2008 It is only a breathless Hollywood script: treasure-hunter Indiana Jones races with...
AJ: I looked for the meaning of Hebat in Hebrew, Sumerian, Sanskrit and Arabic. I also consulted many other sources on the Hurrians. The upshot is that nobody...
George: Please read this article on the extensive influence the Aryans had on the cultures of Mesopotamia and the Levant. http://cura.free.fr/xv/14boutet.html ...
Found: the dustbin of history The Guardian [UK], May 18, 2008 Our collective memory of the past is mostly confined to grand figures and epic events, while the...
