George Somsel: 1. You wrote: “[W]hy go to Akkad to drink the waters of the Euphrates when there is a source much closer to hand. The Proto-Semitic...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Dec 24, 2012 8:20 pm
Jim, You amaze me by coming up with such creative ways to be wrong. Do you know Akkadian? I will freely admit that my Akkadian is extremely oxidized,...
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jimstinehart@...
jimstinehart
Dec 24, 2012 7:03 pm
HUMAP: 1. You wrote: “One assumes Hilkiah, Shapan, and Josiah allwere literate….” Yes, but only the scribe Shapan, who had to correspond withAssyria...
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jimstinehart@...
jimstinehart
Dec 24, 2012 7:03 pm
George Somsel: You wrote: “In thatcase you are saying that this was syllabic in structure rather than alphabetic?What is your basis for asserting that this...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Dec 24, 2012 2:46 pm
HUMAP wrote: "Proto Sinaitic and Ugaritic predate the Merneptah Stela, while full blown Phonecian appears barely a century later. I see no need to lean upon...
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HUMAP@...
humap45
Dec 24, 2012 1:37 pm
Honestly, the narrative doesn't strike me as demanding a foreign language or writing system, as Josiah (or Hezekiah; I am not interested in that debate) tears...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Dec 24, 2012 6:24 am
In that case you are saying that this was syllabic in structure rather than alphabetic? What is your basis for asserting that this was Akkadian cunieform? ...
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jimstinehart@...
jimstinehart
Dec 24, 2012 6:17 am
George F. Somsel: In Canaan during the Late Bronze Age, cuneiform was the writing method for narrative prose. Many low-level scribes during the Amarna Age...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Dec 24, 2012 5:45 am
So, Jim, tell me what cunieform he was using since you know so much about it. george gfsomsel search for truth, hear truth, learn truth, love truth, speak...
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jimstinehart@...
jimstinehart
Dec 24, 2012 5:28 am
G.M. Grena: II Kings 22: 8 reports “the law” as being discovered in thetemple in Jerusalem under King Josiah, and implies that only the scribe couldread...
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funhistory
Dec 24, 2012 4:49 am
... Where/how exactly does King Hezekiah in IIK do that for the Patriarchal narratives? G.M. Grena...
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jimstinehart@...
jimstinehart
Dec 24, 2012 2:20 am
1. Moses spokepre-Hebrew. Pre-Hebrew has pre-1200 BCEcase endings, yet we know from the dozens of west Semitic words in the AmarnaLetters that the vocabulary...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Dec 24, 2012 1:45 am
I'm not saying that the verses in Judges are MORE significant than Ex-Deut, but it is certainly something which SHOULD BE CONSIDERED. I am suggesting that...
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funhistory
Dec 24, 2012 1:21 am
... How do you get Gershom being the custodian of an idol made by Micah? The text names Jonathan & his sons as priests, & merely links him to Moses (in the...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Dec 23, 2012 9:43 pm
Oh, I forgot to mention another speculation regarding Moses. ...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Dec 23, 2012 9:42 pm
http://www.logos.com/product/24077/did-moses-speak-attic-jewish-historiography-and-scripture-in-the-hellenistic-period An even more significant question is...
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funhistory
Dec 23, 2012 8:44 pm
This lecture delivered by Dr. Alan Millard in November was recently posted on the Lanier Theological Library's website: www.LanierTheologicalLibrary.org His...
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James Spinti
tweetynwiley
Dec 11, 2012 7:04 pm
With apologies for the cross-posting. Enjoy the holiday season with a good archaeology book! The Final Reports of The Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon are now...
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biblicalist@yahoogrou...
Dec 2, 2012 7:31 am
This is an automated monthly mailing to all members of The Biblicalist of our current protocols. Please take a few minutes to read through them to familiarize...
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Stephen Goranson
goranson11
Dec 1, 2012 5:09 pm
Joan Taylor in this book strengthens the (already-strong) case that some Essenes lived at Qumran and elsewhere for parts of the first centuries BCE and CE. The...
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James Spinti
tweetynwiley
Nov 28, 2012 5:17 pm
With apologies for the cross-posting. We at Eisenbrauns congratulate Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft, who were awarded the 2012 G. Ernest Wright Award by...
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richfaussette
Nov 9, 2012 3:40 am
Dear list members: I appreciate your patience and Dr. Shepherd's kind response. I had spoken of an addendum to my post on the formula (rubric) I constructed...
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Stephen Goranson
goranson11
Nov 3, 2012 10:17 am
1) John J. Collins, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography (Princeton UP, copyright 2013[?]). This "Lives of Great Religious Books" series contribution offers a...
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richfaussette
Oct 26, 2012 4:39 pm
... Dear Dr. Shepherd, You are very kind to respond. I am working on an expansion to my explanation (rubric). When it is posted do not feel personally...
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Jerry Shepherd
jeronimopastor
Oct 23, 2012 4:40 am
Hi Rich, Please forgive me for not replying any earlier (pressures of the teaching semester). In any case, I would not actually consider the passage you...
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funhistory
Oct 19, 2012 5:11 am
A new exhibit on loan from the Green collection debuted at the Creation Museum in Kentucky today, featuring a Codex Climaci Rescriptus leaf: ...
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richfaussette
Oct 17, 2012 12:35 am
Hello Professor Shepherd, Would you kindly consider this Gospel of Thomas "exegesis?" It's not exactly what you're looking for, it's a Nag Hamadi text, not the...
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Jerry Shepherd
jeronimopastor
Oct 15, 2012 4:18 am
Hi George, Thanks for the reply. You are certainly correct about the 1 Cor 9 example, in that it at least appears to follow the same argumentation as that of...
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George F Somsel
gfsomsel
Oct 11, 2012 3:26 pm
You might add 1 Cor 9.8-12 to that 8 Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law also say the same? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, "You...
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Jerry Shepherd
jeronimopastor
Oct 10, 2012 4:21 pm
Hi List, On another discussion list to which I co-moderate, the question was raised about the relationship between pesher exegesis and NT interpretation. It...
