Dear Frank, Thank you for the reminer. That's the kind of reminders I have occasionally presented also to Tom. And are normally well aware of myself, when...
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frankclancy
Jul 2, 2008 8:48 am
Dear Tony - sorry - my mistake. You are correct - 9th month - I was thinking about the time he had to reach Jerusalem and erred. I assume he took the city on...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Jul 2, 2008 1:52 pm
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, frankclancy wrote: <snip> ... Apparently you are confusing the Babylonian calendar with the Egyptian one. The Babylonian calendar was...
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Gene Greenwood
gwoodgeno
Jul 2, 2008 3:15 pm
Frank, I Luv Ya . . . But: There is so much guessing, flat-out made up stories and conjecture in this that it's laughable. Were you there? Do you have a...
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Tory Thorpe
torythrp
Jul 2, 2008 3:25 pm
Hi Frank: After defeating the Egyptian army at Carchemish on the Euphrates, Nebuchadnezzar chased the remainder and caught up with them in Hamath. Then...
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cejo@...
chuckjones2000
Jul 2, 2008 4:46 pm
Chicago Public Radio's Worldview program has a series of very interesting broadcasts (also available as podcasts) on Geopolitics of Archaeology "We explore the...
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Orel, Sara
orelsmo
Jul 2, 2008 5:23 pm
Chuck -- Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. I have downloaded the podcasts already! Do you know if they are planning more of them? Sara ...
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frankclancy
Jul 2, 2008 6:12 pm
Dear Robert - thank you for the information. I do know about the Egyptian Calendar but I was working on what I had been told for the Babylonian Calendar -...
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frankclancy
Jul 2, 2008 6:48 pm
Dear Gene - no I was not there and as far as I know -with the possible exception of the late David Noel Freedman who loved to say he knew everything - no one...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Jul 2, 2008 7:00 pm
... From: "Frank Polak" <frankha@...> To: <ANE-2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:41 AM Subject: Re: SV: SV: [ANE-2] Re: Was Dan...
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Gene Greenwood
gwoodgeno
Jul 2, 2008 7:43 pm
Frank, Thank You for the good info. Yes we must question biblical history because the popular interpretations don't fit the archaeology. Would you please...
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Stern, Richard H.
zadoqide
Jul 2, 2008 7:45 pm
Sounds like you have a band of thugs roosting in an aerie from which they sally forth to "collect tolls" from merchants going through the nearby pass to the...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Jul 2, 2008 8:26 pm
... Yes, the information is too readily available to be able to safely ignore it. ... No. The fact that it was his 7th year has nothing to do with it. The ...
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Brian Roberts
r.brianroberts
Jul 2, 2008 9:30 pm
The uniqueness of the Deuteronomic Scroll is a dubious and ultimately unprovable cornerstone of modern historical-critical scholarship. Why anyone would want...
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Yitzhak Sapir
ysapir
Jul 2, 2008 9:54 pm
... The text of Berossus is available here: http://books.google.com/books?id=1SIAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38#PPA38,M1 Oded Lipschitz discusses Nebuchadrezzar's return to...
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Caryn M. Berg
carynberg
Jul 3, 2008 4:32 am
Haunting Funerary Paintings… New From Left Coast Press, Inc. A 15% discount on web orders at www.LCoastPress.com. Living Images: Egyptian Funerary Portraits...
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Jon Smyth
driver40386
Jul 3, 2008 4:32 am
If the Deuteronomistic writings had made no reference to a god, would they be treated any different than the works of Manetho, Josephus, Herodotus or Homer? At...
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Niels Peter Lemche
nplemche
Jul 3, 2008 4:43 am
Dear Jon, The correct question is: if the Deuteronomistic Writings was not part of the Bible, would it be treated etc. Apart from this Brian did not address...
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Brian Roberts
r.brianroberts
Jul 3, 2008 12:31 pm
Niels, I'm very pleased and surprised to hear you question that old identification. To me, reading through the biblical text (in English of course, so...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Jul 3, 2008 12:31 pm
At 11:16 AM 7/1/2008, frankclancy wrote: [...] ... As far as I know the promised primary publication (editio princeps), with a facsimile to support that...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Jul 3, 2008 12:32 pm
At 09:06 AM 7/1/2008, Niels Peter Lemche wrote: [...] ... What made me jump in the passage above? With no limiting factors, human growth rate is 5% per year...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Jul 3, 2008 12:32 pm
At 02:28 AM 7/1/2008, frankclancy wrote: [...] ... In the JPS case there is clear "evidence of absence". Maybe it's time to call on the disambiguative...
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Niels Peter Lemche
nplemche
Jul 3, 2008 12:36 pm
Maybe it is the summer and hot weather, but several members have addressed subjects already closed down (e.g., evething connected to Dan, also "was"). The...
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Niels Peter Lemche
nplemche
Jul 3, 2008 12:40 pm
Ariel, We are talking about a traditional society with traditional health care. And a death rate among children of, say between 50 and 90%. Furthermore, I do...
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Niels Peter Lemche
nplemche
Jul 3, 2008 12:43 pm
As the late Robert Carroll said about Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence: This argument uses to break down when it comes to the sexuality of Jesus...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Jul 3, 2008 2:48 pm
You mean, "Worueber man nicht sprechen kann, darueber muss man schreiben"? -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: Ariel L. Szczupak...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Jul 3, 2008 9:58 pm
... I don't know what "traditional" means in this context. We know that human biology results in exponential growth (aka Malthusian) in "ideal" reproductive...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Jul 3, 2008 9:58 pm
... I mean that absence of evidence argued as evidence is evidence of absinthe :) Ariel. [100% bona fide dilettante ... delecto ergo sum!] ... Ariel L....
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Jul 3, 2008 10:37 pm
I recall reading this many years ago in a philosophy class under Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff who now teaches Philosophical Theology at Yale. I also recall...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Jul 4, 2008 7:28 am
... Which is, bottom line, a tautology made into a witticism (as was PTD's version, intentionally or not). The "disambiguative" power of Wittgenstein,...
