My first problem with Simo's paper is that he talks about "Ural-Altaic." Since there is no such thing, it renders suspect anything he might say about Uralic ...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Jun 6, 2011 6:22 pm
Peter, For those of us who are philologically challenged, could you explain why "Ural-Altaic" is now a non-category (at least in some eyes). Trudy S. Kawami,...
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Sikozu Johnson
sikozujohnson@...
Jun 6, 2011 8:00 pm
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Trudy Kawami <tkawami@...>wrote: "For those of us who are philologically challenged, could you explain why ...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Jun 6, 2011 8:02 pm
... I'm not Peter, but this is my understanding the current view: There is no Ural-Alataic because there is no Altaic language group. It is a ghost-family...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Jun 6, 2011 8:53 pm
So in other words, this language "grouping"; is about as valid as the image of the Sumerians in their creaky 4-wheeled carts pulled probably by onager-donkey...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jun 6, 2011 10:30 pm
My reply will be somewhere between Sikozu's and Bob's. These days, there seem to be more Altaicists favoring the genetic unity of the three (not just two)...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Jun 6, 2011 10:47 pm
... Oh, it's a valid "grouping";, it's just not a demonstrable language family if one takes "language family" in its accepted historical linguistic meaning of a...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Jun 7, 2011 12:14 am
... Perhaps, but since Vovin jumped ship so dramatically in 2005 ("The end of the Altaic controversy" [review of Starostin et al. 2003], *Central Asiatic...
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Ralph K. Pedersen
RKPedersen
Jun 7, 2011 11:49 am
On 23-25 June, Philipps-Universitat Marburg is holding the symposium "On Sea and Ocean: New Research in Phoenician Seafaring." The symposium is without...
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aren
arenmaeir
Jun 7, 2011 12:15 pm
Dear all, A document is being distributed through various channels, describing the plans of a supposed joint American, Israeli and Palestinian excavation...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Jun 7, 2011 2:56 pm
Turn it into a webinar and I'll be happy to join. More should be done in that medium.  george gfsomsel … search for truth, hear truth, learn truth, love...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Jun 9, 2011 2:45 pm
Well, is Sumerian still to be regarded as an orphan, having lost all its relatives, and having died out with no distant family members to attend its funeral?...
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Xianhua
e2waxi
Jun 10, 2011 9:59 pm
I'm not really specialized in emesal but somehow I have the impression that it, perhaps similar to the UD.GAL.NUN writing system, is not far from a...
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Jim West
drjewest
Jun 16, 2011 1:40 pm
list folk may enjoy this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13733615 via jim aitken on fb. -- +++++++ Jim West, ThD Petros, TN...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jun 19, 2011 1:15 pm
Jackie Leyden just presented a very long report on Brooklyn College's Aramaicist Karen Stern discovering a new tomb graffito at Beth Shearim -- pictures at...
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MarcC
marc.cooper
Jun 19, 2011 3:06 pm
I heard it this morning. It was a very good report. Definitely worth a few minutes. Marc Cooper Missouri State University...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jun 20, 2011 2:52 pm
What I found most interesting was that Jacki Lyden (as someone else spelled her) said she accidentally spilled coffee on the papers Ms. Stern was grading and ...
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Antonio Lombatti
antonio_lomb...
Jun 20, 2011 7:13 pm
... found in Cyprus: http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=13365 ... Antonio Lombatti http://www.antoniolombatti.it Parma, Italia [Non-text portions of this...
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Ianir Milevski
ianirm
Jun 20, 2011 9:44 pm
Culture, Chronology and the Calcolithic. Theory and Transition. Levant Supplementary Series 9. Council for British Research of the Levant and Oxbow Books....
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Antonio Lombatti
antonio_lomb...
Jun 21, 2011 6:16 pm
... found in Jerusalem: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-21/diggers-unearth-3-000-year-old-tablet-jerusalem-s-oldest-written-document.html? ... Antonio...
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Jim West
drjewest
Jun 21, 2011 7:23 pm
old news from last year. not sure why they're re-running it now- but it's not new. ... -- +++++++ Jim West, ThD Petros, TN...
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zmbq
Jun 22, 2011 7:38 pm
They're running it again because the site is now open for public. Itay Zandbank, Israel...
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Peter M. Fischer
peter8fischer
Jun 27, 2011 4:27 pm
Preliminary results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition at Hala Sultan Tekke in spring 2011 on preliminary website ...
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David Hall
dqhall59
Jun 28, 2011 6:53 pm
I found an article about this inscription. I am not sure whether or not to trust it as there may be translation and dating theories contrary to this ...
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Thomas Verenna
tom_verenna
Jun 28, 2011 7:46 pm
My suggestion is to start with he interesting discussion in Thomas Thompson's *The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel*(New York: Basic...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jun 28, 2011 8:34 pm
That's just a general introduction; the translation is by the original editors and Baruch Levine, all most respectable, but of course there has been much ...
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Thomas L. Thompson
tltij
Jun 29, 2011 9:14 am
Dear David, Yes. See esp.: J. Hofttijzer and G. van der Joij (eds.) Aramaic Texts from Deir Alla (1976); J.A, Hackett, The Balaam Text from Deir 'Alla; H&M....
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theodc25
Jun 30, 2011 8:23 pm
On my blog I have a post about more lead codices surfacing on the Jordanian antiquities market (with apologies for cross-posting). http://tinyurl.com/694h73j ...
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margreetsteiner
Jul 1, 2011 6:52 am
The names are Hoftijzer and van der KOOIJ. Margreet Steiner...
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Thomas Verenna
tom_verenna
Jul 1, 2011 6:52 am
Glad you posted this, Owen. I sent this along to the email group dealing with the codices. As I noted on your blog, and Dan McClellan had noted elsewhere as...
