See now my Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Exodus, 34-71. Chapter 3 is devoted to the fragment commonly...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Nov 24, 2008 11:47 am
... Dl. Szczupak (dilettante) Ariel. [100% bona fide dilettante ... delecto ergo sum!] ... Ariel L. Szczupak AMIS-JLM (Ricercar Ltd.) POB 4707, Jerusalem,...
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Douglas C. Comer
douglas.comer
Nov 24, 2008 2:22 pm
I am looking for a well-researched image of feasting in a triclinium. The closest thing to what I am looking for that I have found so far appears to be in...
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Doug Weller
dougweller
Nov 24, 2008 4:58 pm
Hi Russell I've read that Josephus used H of Abdera's supposed writing on the Jews in Contra Apionem, where does that idea come from? Thanks Doug Weller ... --...
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goranson@...
goranson11
Nov 24, 2008 5:22 pm
... Now also reported in The Guardian, "Finds that made Basques proud are fake, say experts" by Giles Tremlett: ...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Nov 24, 2008 5:23 pm
vide infra -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ________________________________ From: Ariel L. Szczupak <ane.als@...> To: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com ...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Nov 24, 2008 5:23 pm
I have played with this all day to try to sort out my own terminology in describing proto-alphabetic texts. As I have said, I am going to invite you to share...
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Michael F. Lane
gbarrenador
Nov 24, 2008 5:26 pm
Doug -- Given the nature of your recent research, are you seeking such an image of a triclinium in a Nabataean context, or just any well researched picture of...
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RUSSELLGMIRKIN@...
Nov 24, 2008 8:11 pm
Josephus has an extensive passage at Contra Apionem 1.183-204 excerpting quotations from a work by "Hecataeus of Abdera." This material is known as ...
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Michael F. Lane
gbarrenador
Nov 24, 2008 8:15 pm
Johns Hopkins' Matt Roller's new book -- which I have not read -- may, at least, point you to several useful sources: Dining Posture in Ancient Rome ...
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Jascha Kessler
jkessler@...
Nov 24, 2008 8:17 pm
You would probably have your pint. I think I misquoted. It should be "Photius, with mitre awry," JK thanks for the history, which I might have Googled, but...
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lmlkes
Nov 24, 2008 8:46 pm
Dear Dr. Daniels, Hi!!! If You want to call these scripts different that is your right. Both Dr. Barkay and Dr. Amihai Mazar are fine scholars. They both can...
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Jimmy Doyle
liquidthinki...
Nov 24, 2008 9:43 pm
Doug An excellent overview book on dining customs in the Greco-Roman culture is Symposium and Eucharist by Dennis Smith. As can be gathered by the title, his...
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David Hall
dqhall59@...
Nov 24, 2008 9:44 pm
This is a photo of a mosaic from Sephoris, Israel. After looking at triclinium photos from Pompeii online I labelled the scene as a triclinium although it...
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Francesco Brighenti
frabrig
Nov 25, 2008 2:00 pm
Dear Dr. Clancy, ... I agree that fragments quoted by later authors constitute shaky evidence for early attestation of a word or phrase, as is the case with...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Nov 25, 2008 2:01 pm
In response to Peter Daniels: I think you would not have seen my response entitled "PC & PS" when you sent this. Siehe unten! From: Ariel L. Szczupak...
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Dolores Delgado
delgadoyosemite
Nov 25, 2008 2:01 pm
Hi all - I'm mostly a viewer of the list, and appreciate all of your contributions that have bolstered my own edification of the Ancient Near East. I have a...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Nov 25, 2008 2:01 pm
Since "paleo" means "old" and the Maccabean coin script was but a comma in the history of the Hebrew script, I hope Dr. Naveh will forgive me if I stick to...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Nov 25, 2008 2:01 pm
The Maccabean revival of Hebrew, like the Bar Kochba attempt, was not very successful and is primarily found on coinage. Is the definition of Paleo-Hebrew as...
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victor
victor@...
Nov 25, 2008 2:21 pm
Hello Dolores, I'm sure I won't be the only person on this list who will tell you that there is nothing before the Dead Sea Scrolls which "May allude to...
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Nov 25, 2008 5:32 pm
... Oh, come on ... I haven't seen any serious publication, TWWS included, that differentiates between ED texts and the Amarna texts as being written in...
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RUSSELLGMIRKIN@...
Nov 25, 2008 8:11 pm
I am surprised that the discussion of Paleo-Hebrew has omitted the Dead Sea Scrolls, which contains a number of samples of this script from virtually all the...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Nov 25, 2008 8:11 pm
Yardeni also uses this terminology -- see The Book of Hebrew Script, p. 44. The term "Palaeo-Hebrew" does not appear anywhere else in this volume. -- Peter...
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Yitzhak Sapir
ysapir
Nov 25, 2008 8:11 pm
... Jack, are you speaking of language or script? Yitzhak Sapir...
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Michael F. Lane
gbarrenador
Nov 25, 2008 8:34 pm
Well, it looks like even David Macaulay's well-known children's book City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction (1974) -- with Macaulay's characteristic...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon_2000
Nov 26, 2008 5:39 am
... From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir@...> To: <ANE-2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [ANE-2] Re: The Qeiyafa...
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lmlkes
Nov 26, 2008 5:40 am
Dear Dr. Gmirkin, Hi!!! You are correct. This linear Hebrew script did not die out and was in existence for a thousand plus years-- ca.1,000B.C. to 100+ A.D....
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Ariel L. Szczupak
ane.als@...
Nov 26, 2008 7:01 am
... Had an idea during the night. Do you by any chance consider "script" as something significantly different from "writing system" (with a more restricted...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Nov 26, 2008 1:57 pm
Where's your evidence of "every century" ? Why would they even have bothered switching to Square Hebrew for the vast majority of written production? -- Peter...
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Brian Colless
damaohu
Nov 27, 2008 5:26 pm
I propose to use a resurrected inscription from the turquoise mines in Sinai to show that it is possible to read these proto-alphabetic texts (wilfully,...
