Dear Victor, I must have missed something. What are the social structures? How are they different? How do they apply to second millennium Israel? Best wishes, ...
Dear Yitzhak Sapir, Thank you for your thoughtful and well-reasoned posting. With regard to my correlation of Pentateuchal priestly tradition with the circles...
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Jan 1, 2007 4:37 pm
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According to the logs, December generated the following message traffic (November numbers in parentheses): Total submissions to list 380 (205) Bounced by Yahoo...
Dear Yigal, I had suggested that one could look at the chronologies listed in the biblical text and understand what the authors meant by the people of Israel, ...
Liz, You've fallen into the "Median trap": since Herodotus said it was the capital, then it must be. There certainly is (was) a "Persian," i.e. Achaemenid,...
... I just thought of a possible example. If I recall correctly in anthropology "family" implies that inter-marriage is forbidden, taboo, "clan" (or gens, or...
Ariel L. Szczupak
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Jan 1, 2007 7:50 pm
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Dear Trudy, One should also be careful of falling into an "anti-Median" trap. It is not only Herodotus who refers to Median Ecbatana. The "Nabonidus...
Dear Liz, Why not to check reports on female mummies? Or persons who had recently did this kind of research? Yours Rafal Kolinski Institute of Prehistory Adam...
Dear Rafal, The mummies were shaved, or at least razors were found in their tombs. I don't know if this implies that they shaved during their lifetimes, and I ...
I'm away from my library at the moment - so can't check for you - but the Nicholson/Shaw "Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology" might be of use. iirc...
Liz, 2 Sam 14:25 says that Absalom was very lovely - really exceptional - and the next verse says that he shaved periodically. The verse after that says he...
... archaeology, I don't think one can say that there is no material evidence for them in their homeland. What material evidence are you thinking of? ... for a...
Dear Andrew, I'm using the same textual version you allude to here and I find in Genesis 26:22 describing Isaac's reaction to frisking his young son Jacob ...
victor avigdor hurowitz
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Jan 2, 2007 4:47 am
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You guys are a barrel of laughs. Liz Fried _____ From: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ANE-2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of victor avigdor hurowitz Sent: Monday,...
What is all the confusion about tribe, clan and Benjamin? 1 Sam 9:21 is very clear: "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my...
I have posted "Appendix A: Palaeography and the Dating of Individual Qumran Manuscripts", published in 2001 in my _4Q Pesher Nahum: A Critical Edition_, at: ...
GREG Doudna
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Jan 2, 2007 6:56 am
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In only you started on a Hebrew course! That we would not have all these faulty transcriptions. ulalfeyhem : several problems, the worst that you do not...
Dear Niels, I think you’re being a bit harsh on what you perceive of as Andrew’s shoddy transliteration. I assume your first sentence should read “If...
victor
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Jan 2, 2007 9:23 am
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My my, what an example of odium philologicum ! Everyone in the field always struggles with the limitations of Roman alphabet while transcribing Hebrew, the...
My attention was caught by another element of Liz's transmission of the CHN item: "Head of the team of archeologists at Ecbatana Hill, Masoud Azarnoush told...
... Considering that the report comes from a non-native speaker being interviewed by a journalist not necessarily familiar with the technical terminology of...
Mr. Doudna (and apparently Mr. Cross before him) has overlooked a basic "human factor" in paleographic dating of manuscripts. Any individual scribe can have a...
Peter T. Daniels
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Jan 2, 2007 2:07 pm
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Dear Victor—and Niels Peter, Guys, he’s joking! Lighten up! phule is Greek for tribe maybe – or for something— and spelling it backwards gives us elef,...
Dear Colleagues, in light of the the looming deadline for abstracts I append a reminder on the upcoming Midwest AOS/ASOR/SBL conference in February. Please...
Peter, I haven't overlooked that individual scribes can have a career lasting 40 years or that different media can affect shapes of letters. My argument is a...
GREG Doudna
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Jan 2, 2007 9:38 pm
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From McCarter's AB commentary on 1 Samuel, I learned that )LF here (and generally) is not 'thousand' but 'company (of soldiers)', perhaps a few dozen. You...
