The links page at the ANE-2 homepage <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/links> has a number of links both to biblical text and to pages with links to...
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Jim West
drjewest
Sep 9, 2008 10:12 pm
Does anyone know anything of a certain Dr. Julian Slobam? Sorry for the intrusion- but I figured if anyone knew, someone here would. thanks -- ++++++ Jim West,...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000
Sep 11, 2008 1:12 am
I've seen the claim that the Greek word γάζα, ης, ἡ (gaza), comes from the the Persian word ganj, from the Sanskrit gañja". But Danker notes that...
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David Hall
dqhall59@...
Sep 11, 2008 5:05 am
Early exploration accounts might provide additional evidence not easily attained in modern sources. The site of Bethsaida has been described by...
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Jim West
drjewest
Sep 11, 2008 5:05 am
It's available for ordering here: http://www.lafeltrinelli.it/products/2655940.html (thanks to Airton Jose da Silva for finding this link) -- ++++++ Jim West,...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
Sep 11, 2008 7:02 am
I am very pleased to announce the appearance of a new book: Maresha Excavations Final Report II: Hellenistic Terracotta Figurines from the 1989-1996 Seasons,...
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cejo@...
chuckjones2000
Sep 11, 2008 10:45 am
Conference: Acquiring and Maintaining Collections of Cultural Objects: Challenges Confronting American Museums in the 21st Century DePaul University College of...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
Sep 11, 2008 2:41 pm
Apropos of that I just received, somewhat belatedly, my Dec 07 issue of Near Eastern Archaeology, No. 70:4 with an interesting article on the identification of...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Sep 11, 2008 2:41 pm
Stephanie, Please remember that this is not an authoritative translation. It is not original, it is just the general consensus put into my own words (but these...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Sep 11, 2008 3:59 pm
Ganj is modern Persian for “treasure.” It’s relative “ganja” is Rastaferian slang for cannabis and so has entered local vocabulary (at least in my...
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Michael F. Lane
gbarrenador
Sep 11, 2008 4:06 pm
This appears to be the consensus etymology of the word of the Hellenistic and Roman Period word. There is at least a Middle and Modern Persian (Farsi) word...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Sep 11, 2008 4:51 pm
I'd love to know where to find fonts for typing the MPers variant. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ... From: Trudy Kawami...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Sep 11, 2008 5:33 pm
From CAD G, p. 43: ganzabaru s.; treasurer; LB*; Old Pers. lw. PN LU2 gan-za-ba-ru Dar. 527:5, cf. ibid. 295:2. Eilers Beamtennamen 43, 123f.; for ganzabara as...
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Lisbeth S. Fried
lizzfried
Sep 11, 2008 6:52 pm
Bara means bearer actually; to bear, to carry, to have responsibility for. Ganzabara would be the one having responsibility for the...
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Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Sep 11, 2008 7:06 pm
I think that the Rastafarian term is typically said to be based on "gan Jah" (a kind of Anglicized Hebrew phrase based on GN YHWH in Gen 13.10 and Isa 51.3)...
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Jim West
drjewest
Sep 11, 2008 7:17 pm
Kevin, you seem to know an awful lot about it.... ;-) ... ++++++ Jim West, ThD...
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Kevin P. Edgecomb
kedgecom2002
Sep 11, 2008 7:31 pm
I have some friends peripherally involved in the reggae scene, organizing concerts and so on. And, of course, I'm in Berkeley. (cough cough) I really can't...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
Sep 11, 2008 7:35 pm
Ah, then, it's like modern Persian where present participles are combined with root words to make agent nouns. In this case, bar (from mod. bordan "to carry",...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
Sep 11, 2008 7:45 pm
Just to complicate things, I had understood from my limited textile history that the English word for a thin somewhat transparent woven cotton cloth, gauze,...
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Lisbeth S. Fried
lizzfried
Sep 11, 2008 7:50 pm
The word gnz) appears several times among the Elephantine corpus to refer to the Persian storehouse on the island to which taxes and tariffs were deposited and...
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arenmaeir
Sep 11, 2008 7:54 pm
Although I can't say much since it has not been published in any manner, today, the excavators of Khirbet Qeiyafa, Yossi Garfinkel (Hebrew University) and Saar...
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David Hall
dqhall59@...
Sep 11, 2008 10:24 pm
Rami Arav and Richard Freund have published volumes about Bethsaida - Et Tel, including axcavation reports, in the 1990's. In volume one of Bethsaida Arav and...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Sep 12, 2008 11:46 am
Here are both the BDB and the HALOT entries of the usage. Note that HALOT appears to confirm Robert Whiting's supposition. ...
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Lampros F. Kallenos
ampileri
Sep 12, 2008 11:47 am
... This etymology is also referred in the Great Greek Encyclopaedia (commonly "Pyrsos"), dated since 1934. So, it appears to be widespread enough, and so I ...
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Robert Whiting
whiting35
Sep 12, 2008 1:29 pm
... responsibility ... the ... I knew this tickled a faint memory. In chapter 12 of Nicolas Damascenus there is a story about Cyrus and a Persian named Oibaras...
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E. Adams
eanyokabi
Sep 12, 2008 8:16 pm
Rastafarian slang! Sometimes you people really make me laugh! Have they so pre-empted ex-British Commonwealth culture that the latter has disappeared from...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
Sep 13, 2008 10:17 am
I've been told that the word scallion (green onion) is derived from the town of Ascalon (biblical Askqelon), which was purportedly famous for these plants....
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
Sep 13, 2008 11:13 am
For those in London this should be interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/13/heritage.exhibition Eliot Braun, Ph D Sr. Fellow WF Albright...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Sep 13, 2008 7:06 pm
Is Haggai Misgav a 'cuneiformologist' or an 'aramaicist' or a 'hebraicist'? Sorry for being such a busybody. You don't have to give away secrets. [Are they...
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David Hall
dqhall59@...
Sep 13, 2008 7:07 pm
Not sure if this has been posted yet as I missed part of the thread.: In the Amarna letters Gaza was thought to beHazzatu. The H, CH, and guttaral GH...
