Jeffrey, Frankly, I don't really understand this 'test' you suggest for my Persian/Misri thesis. Since you, no doubt, are quite familiar with the Hebrew of...
Walter, Thank you for the important archaeological data here. But I should point out that there is a bit of a tautology that we have to watch for. We assume...
Walter, Ahhh..... 10 wet noodle wacks. I accept the chastisement. But......and we must remember the "but".... There seems to be TREMENDOUS confusion about...
Walter, You write: "Redford and other professionals (Dever, Mazar, Aharoni, Stern, etc.)...yourself, have noted that the Pentateuchal narrator is UNAWARE of...
Walter, You write: "Redford and other professionals (Dever, Mazar, Aharoni, Stern, etc.)...yourself, have noted that the Pentateuchal narrator is UNAWARE of...
George, I've been studying pottery in the Bronze Age, so I thought I'd have a hand at finding some urls for you. The very first to show up for +"iron age II"...
George, I was skimming through the "alpabet" tables of Martin Bernal's "Cadmean Letters The Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean and Further West before...
Lars, Just before the rise of the Sea People, and the collapse of the economy in Palestine, Redford describes a very INTENSE hegemony of Egypt over Palestine. ...
Thanks for your "risk". It's how I intuited and could never figure out how Jewhating could then become part of the equation. And then the WWII Hitler thing....
... Then perhaps it is a referent to "seers". Again, none of the Greek words for calf bear any resemblance to Mopsos (mu omicrom psi omicron sigma). JG -- ...
... On what grounds? As Krister Stendahl has shown (Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West), the idea that Paul had a guilty conscience is something...
... "No doubt"? Are you actually claiming, as your expression implies, that this is the **only** way their never questioning " this most glaring of ...
... Who said it was? And what would a "negative" reference be? JG -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.) 1500 W. Pratt Blvd. Floor 1 Chicago, Illinois 60626 ...
... What commentaries are you looking at? Those in the Word Series? In the NICGNT, the ICC, Anchor, Blacks, Sacred Pagina? ... The IDB is not a commentary. It...
... I suppose it's possible that the Habiru/Apiru and the Hebrews are the same people and originate from Eber (Gen. 10:21, 24). It's interesting that although...
I hear the term "pricked in your heart or conscience. For that reason Christ was spit at and etc. Paul should have known better. Scotty ... Conscience of ... ...
I hear the term "pricked in your heart or conscience. For that reason Christ was spit at and etc. Paul should have known better. Scotty ... Conscience of ... ...
... from ... was ... your ... Well, it's not entirely clear that Tudhalias 4 is contemporary with Tukulti-ninurta 1. ... Vern, I have Shalmaneser I as...
Dear George, Thank you for clarifying your position, that you beleive parts of the Primary History are "pre-Persian" but that it also possesses Persian Era ...
The best thing is to present your own intelligent post and the offending post will quickly scroll into oblivion. Personal accusations only make static. Scotty ...
Jeffrey, I'm not really sure why you enjoy creating side-disputes over almost anything I might write. They rarely add to advancing the thread. In this case,...
For those looking into the canonization of the Book of Esther I hasten to remind you of two things: 1. At this level, you must distinguish between the two...
Dear Andy, We ALL have "presuppositions" and BIASES which underlie our research and our interpretations. Your "presupposition/bias" is that the Bible is TRUE, ...
Looking at the Hebrew for Mitsrayim, I think we can de-emphasize this "double straits" sense of the word, compared to the more "geographical" sense of the...
Just a little astronomy note since the eclipse mentioned in the Assyrian eponym list is considered an "anchor" event for dating the Assyrian period. The...
Jeffrey, I don't see what your "test" proves. Once the confusion between "Mishri" and "Misraim" was established in the post-Exilic period, the confusion would...