... When George asked the above question, I responded with this: "The conflict between Egpyt and Israel is over demographics. It was necessary for a decent...
... <LOUISDEMAREST@...> wrote: "...What actually happened at yam suph when we read that Yahweh split waters of the sea with a strong wind allowing Israel to...
... Hi George. The details I referred to was more to do with the aggravation between two royals, Sethos & Harmais (Aegyptos & Danaus), being better suited to...
HEBREW WRITING FROM KING DAVID TIME FOUND (ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, OCTOBER 31 - Excitement was caused in Israel by the finding of a pottery shard where a few...
Richard ... Interesting question, but the more important one, as I see it, is, Were there really two historical partings?, and if not, Which are we to accept...
... to ... Understood, but in Joshua, there is no ruling state and in Acts we're talking about the kingdom of God, which is an ontological state that requires...
Dear friends, Here is a post in Ancientindia Yahoo Group by Suzanne Olsson, author of a book regarding the possibility that Jesus were in Kashmir. The review...
... we ... of ... were. ... upon ... Still up in the air - exilic/post-exilic- a collection of ancient eponyms, some songs, and stories were molded into a...
Hi aj, rich and all, rich wrote ... It's also worth remembering that one of the standard claims to fame of the ANE king/leader was that he knew how, where and...
Rich You wrote Are these events history or just the systematic theology of the chief redactor? My intuition is that we should look to the returning exiles from...
... rich wrote: There is a general rule regarding water in scripture. God is master over the water and men who give themselves completely over to God also...
... chief ... Babylon and those (later redactors) who perpetuated their religious zeal and reformed religious ideology. In Babylon the Isralites were ...
... <RFaussette@...> wrote: I wrote: The story about Nachshon walking into the water until it is over his head is a midrash, an ancient rabbinical commentary...
Hi Rich ... An interesting position, Rich, if I understand it correctly: you obvious hold the Exous crossing to be an allegory, yet you still believe that...
How about cassions and ferries? How about the sun standing still? A catastrophic earthquake adjustment of the landscape? The events had to have been notable...
Hi Rich, I wrote ... and you replied ... Pretty much every Mesopotamian king who left significant records made a claim like this - Tiglath-pileser 1 "I even...
... also a ... Hi aj, The Torah is not history, because its fundamental structure is ahistorical and political, but I cannot say characters such as Abraham...
... Pretty much every Mesopotamian king who left significant records made a claim like this... My point is that the crossing-river motif is so much part of the...
Rich ... I'd agree with that in large part. ... I never suggested that I could (or would). ... Why is it that in every other field researchers must provide...
Rich ... There is also the interesting fact that the tale which grew-up around the circimstances of Cyrus' birth somewhat resembles that surrounding Moses'. ...
Hi Jon ... I believe that you've missed the import of the passage, Jon, and the fact that you've omitted the word 'Arabian' from your translation only...
Greetings Is this our Jewish garrison on Elephantine to which Herodotus refers in his Histories?-: "In the reign of Psammetichos garrisons were set, one...
... Why is it that in every other field researchers must provide positive evidence for their positions, yet in Biblical studies researchers feel themselves...
... There is also the interesting fact that the tale which grew-up around the circimstances of Cyrus' birth somewhat resembles that surrounding Moses'. Yes,...
Rich ... The stature of which first temple, Richard? I am not aware of Finkelstein and Silbermann ever admitting there had been found anything on the Mount...
King Solomon's (copper) mines? EurekAlert [USA], 27-Oct-2008 Did the Bible's King David and his son Solomon control the copper industry in present-day southern...
Thanks for this post Robert. This post is more evidence of my theory that David and Solomon were originally from Midianite dominated Edom/Moab. The Midianites...
aj, Jon and all, in Jon's earlier post which aj quotes, Jon also wrote ... in fact there is good evidence that there was such an earlier canal, several such in...
Hi aj, Rich and all, aj wrote ... There are several ways to look at this. Firstly, no serious Biblical researcher still today adopts the idea that they don't...