Greetings! I am currently looking through Maspero's 1894 publication of _The Dawn of Civilization_, where, starting on pg. 575, he offers the most Victorian ...
... it to me in hard-copy, which is why I can't find it on line! ... Nicholson that the reviewer focuses on. People should let me know if they'd be interested...
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victor avigdor hurowitz
victor@...
Feb 2, 2007 4:10 am
I assume that this is simply an earlier reading of $amhat because U2 can be read $AM. Yu might find in the same book that Eabani's friend was Izdubar which,...
Dear Peter, Thanks for the fill-in. Here's what Steiner said (pages 1-2 of speech): "I've completed until now about twelve papers on the subject of semitic...
Dear colleague, The eleventh annual meeting of the International Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA) will be hold in Istanbul 24-29 April 2007. The...
Egypt is not the only source of elephants for the ANE. There were indigenous Syrian elephants (now long extinct). And Mesopotamian connections with the...
According to the logs (as corrected), January generated the following message traffic (December numbers in parentheses): Total submissions to list 544 (380) ...
What is the earliest written grammar of a language of which we have a copy? I know we have the Akkadian word lists, but did the ancients write grammars, that...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim@...
Feb 2, 2007 10:52 pm
The most accessible account of ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian grammatical texts is found in Giulio Lepschy's History of Linguistics, vol. 1. The...
See also Jeremy Black, Sumerian Grammar in Babylonian Theory (1984). The so-called Old Babylonian grammatical texts are primarly elucidations of Sumerian...
ANE List, Greetings. I was wondering if someone could perhaps give an idea of what the population of Canaan likely was around 1500-1200 BCE. I'm finding it ...
Take a look at these, Ethan: Rivka Gonen, "Urban Canaan in the Late Bronze Period." BASOR 253 (Winter 1984), 61-73 Nadav Naaman, "Four Notes on the Size of...
Otherwise start with Baedecker 1895 (or 1896), talking about c. 600.000 inhabitants in those days. It has to do with the maximum amount of people that the land...
Thank you to Peter and Bob, This is exactly what I was looking for. Donald R. Vance, Ph.D. Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature Oral Roberts...
Dear Ethan, When Gad returned from his census-trip he reported that Israel numbered "800,000 men of strength drawing a sword". There were also "500,000 men of...
Hi Folks, We know the issue of domesticated camels (or the supposed non-existence thereof) is used by Finkelstein and others (eg. skeptic Paul Tobin) to...
Dear Andrew, This is a good example of the problems created by a too simplistic use of the Old Testament. A heavy manipulation of numbers is necessary, a...
The funny thing is that the date of the domestication of the camel was not proposed by some radical biblical scholar but by the old rather conservative master,...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim@...
Feb 4, 2007 1:54 pm
Could this again be running up against the question of )LP = 'military company of a few men' rather than = '1000'? An army of 1.3 - 1.57 million men is about...
Hi Niels, ... It's not exactly convincing. It says 'could' have been a camel or buffalo. Or another reason entirely. I'm still interested in the story of camel...
Dear Doug, I do not know why this exactly was addressed to me, as I was already expressing doubt about this case. Shouldn't it have been addressed to Stephen...
Magen Broshi's articles on the demography of ancient Canaan/Palestine (and on some other issues) have been collected in his volume _Bread, Wine, Walls and...
... Steve, I am going to ask you as a moderator of ANE-2 to cease labeling with such dogmatic, patronizing, and question begging terms of opprobrium as you...
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the publication of Gamla I. The Pottery of the Second Temple Period. The Shmarya Gutmann Excavations, 1976-1989. (IAA...
Jeffrey, The fact is that Paul Tobin even considers himself to be a sceptic (I had to look him up). See http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/ While I don't...
... George, Thanks for your message. However, whether or not Tobin considers himself a sceptic/skeptic is neither here nor there since Steven's use of the...
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RUSSELLGMIRKIN@...
Feb 4, 2007 8:28 pm
Dear list, While book search engines are a potentially powerful tool for academic research, I have found recent implementations to be alarmingly inaccurate,...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Feb 4, 2007 8:47 pm
... One of my pet peeves :( A few years ago (2000?) I found some 2nd mbc population estimates in a paper to be strange and I looked more deeply into the...
