... FWIW, Yappû (ia-pu-u, ia-ap-pu-u2) certainly refers to Jaffa in the Neo-Assyrian period. Sennacherib's annals make this quite clear: (gn)Iappu^ OIP 2 H1a...
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Rene
rsalm2002
Apr 1, 2007 9:28 am
... letters with Jaffa. (That is, in the geographical index of her Amarna letters translation, there is a listing for Jaffa, and it says right after Yapu, and...
4616
Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Apr 1, 2007 10:50 am
According to the logs, March generated the following message traffic (February numbers in parentheses): Total submissions to list 563 (428) Bounced by Yahoo 20...
4617
James Spinti
tweetynwiley
Apr 1, 2007 2:14 pm
Please excuse the cross-posting. For your enjoyment. Feel free to forward.
James
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Yigal Levin
yigallevin
Apr 1, 2007 2:52 pm
Thank you, Yitzhak, for this apparently very plausible possibility. However, regardless of the reference in the Amarna letters, we still have an unambiguous...
4619
goranson@...
goranson11
Apr 1, 2007 2:54 pm
Q. Salm, having declared that Nazareth did not exist in the first century AD or CE (not a sherd), has teamed up with E. Doudna, who announced that there is not...
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David Hall
dqhall59@...
Apr 1, 2007 4:14 pm
Richard Horsley stated that Nazareth was refounded in the pre-Hasmonean Hellinistic times and continued to be built during Hasmonean times. It was stated that...
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Eliot Braun
eliotbraun
Apr 1, 2007 4:39 pm
Presumably this is not an April 1 prank http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3383323,00.html And I was sure it was done by extraterrestrials Eliot Braun,...
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B.E.Colless
damaohu
Apr 1, 2007 6:32 pm
... http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/uem/ ... My sincere thanks, Bea So, Umm el-Marra is on the Jabbul plain, east of Aleppo and Alalakh, north-east of Ebla and...
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Doug Weller
dougweller
Apr 1, 2007 7:44 pm
Hi Eliot, ... This seems to be getting some support (Bob Brier and maybe Rainer Stadelmann), and there will be a 6 page article in Archaeology about it. Doug ...
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George Athas
gkathas
Apr 1, 2007 10:47 pm
Hi Doug! While Daniel Miller's review of my book was quite favourable, I don't think he's quite captured the nuance of my argument regarding Jerusalem. Let me ...
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Dierk van den Berg
qumran.geo
Apr 2, 2007 5:32 am
Ich bewerte die unten angehängte Postille zunächst einmal nur als klassischen Aprilscherz ohne jeden Nährwert. Es sei denn, S. Goranson kann mir erklären,...
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Beatrice Hopkinson
beahopkinson@...
Apr 2, 2007 5:06 pm
Trudy, I had checked the website and found they were using 'broad' dates, since this list is well informed I thought I'd check specifically for Syria. I'd like...
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Rene
rsalm2002
Apr 2, 2007 5:06 pm
... listing is Sarid (Tell Shadud), Chisloth-tabor (Iksal or a very nearby site), Daberath (Daburiyyeh) and THEN Japhia. The present-day village of Yafa is...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Apr 2, 2007 6:28 pm
I am not aware that there are any strigently defined "borders" to Mespopotamia. The site of Mari is in modern Syria but was clearly part of the...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Apr 3, 2007 2:10 am
I suppose you would apply the same logic (??) to the case of Chorazin which is condemned by Jesus in Mt 11.21-22. Josephus makes no mention of the town....
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David Hall
dqhall59@...
Apr 3, 2007 9:34 am
A group of ten men might have formed a synogogue. At Dura-Europas there were house synagogues and house churches found in the same town from about the mid 3rd...
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Beatrice Hopkinson
beahopkinson@...
Apr 3, 2007 9:34 am
... That is what I thought, but I wondered if Northern Syria was defined somewhat differently? ... Frankly, as I am dealing with Beveled Rim Bowls I was...
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Gene Greenwood
gwoodgeno
Apr 3, 2007 2:15 pm
Trudy, For all my studies, Mesopotamia includes the land between the rivers and the the river valleys themselves. The term would include anybody that lived off...
4633
Tim Cashion
timcashion
Apr 3, 2007 2:17 pm
Saturday's Chicago Tribune has an article about the North American "premiere"; of the Hurrian "Prayer of an Infertile Woman" as Theo J. H. Krispijn of Leiden...
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Jim West
drjewest
Apr 3, 2007 2:22 pm
Listers may find this report to be of interest: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20070403134940540C463643 -- Jim West, ThD ...
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Dierk van den Berg
qumran.geo
Apr 3, 2007 2:23 pm
... Chorazin which is condemned by Jesus in Mt 11.21-22. Josephus makes no mention of the town. While remains have been excavated, nothing points to a date...
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Garold Mills
gmills4248
Apr 3, 2007 2:26 pm
All, I use the term Mesopotamia for the region around the rivers. However it seems to be very flexible. I think the term Fertile Crescent is the often used...
4637
David Michelson
michelsons3
Apr 3, 2007 2:26 pm
Please forward as appropriate: Dorushe Annual Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in ...
4638
driver40386
Apr 3, 2007 2:44 pm
TEL HABUWA, Egypt - Egyptian archaeologists showed off white pumice Monday that they theorize was swept onto the northern Sinai desert by a tsunami triggered...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Apr 3, 2007 3:07 pm
Bea, Bevel-rim bowls also occur in SW Iran which no one calls Mesopotamia. ... what is now Syria & even the Iranian plateau a little. There is no question that...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim@...
Apr 3, 2007 4:24 pm
What's the relation between this World's Oldest Song and the one reconstructed by a Berkeley(? -- Ann Kilmer was involved) team nearly thirty years ago, which...
4641
Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Apr 3, 2007 7:01 pm
I was wondering that, too. It was Anne Kilmer, Richard Crocker, and Robert Brown. The latter built the large Sumerian harp replica (Crocker sings the Hurrian...
4642
Beatrice Hopkinson
beahopkinson@...
Apr 3, 2007 7:25 pm
Trudy, Well I have been referring to them now as occurring in Mesopotamia and its hinterland - that should cover it don't you think. Bea...
4643
Jim West
drjewest
Apr 3, 2007 7:27 pm
The press, it seems, is completely incapable of getting things right when it comes to biblical studies and archaeology of the Levant. Exhibit 1- The Baltimore...
