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  • From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>
  • To: George Athas <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Exodus, Philistines, contra Bimson & Drews
  • Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 23:20:40 +0200




George Athas wrote:

> > Just a note to this discussion:
> > Yigael Yadin once claimed in a Hebrew article entitled "And why does Dan
> > live by/fear ships" (my translations of the Hebrew yagur) that the
> > Israelite tribe of Dan were a part of that Sea People known from the
> > Rameses III inscription and from the Kultepe Inscription of Azituwadda
> > as the Danuna or the Dnnm.
> > He didn't prove his point beyond all shadow of a doubt, but he made an
> > interesting case.
>
> Does this, then, make the Danites Greek, on the basis that the Dnnm seem to
> be related to
> the Danaans of Homeric epic? It would make for an interesting
> interpretation of the
> interaction between Philistines and Danites in the Samson narratives. Is
> Samson the
> Semitic Herakles or Achilles

>

The connection between the Danuna. the Kultepe Dnnm and the homeric Danaioi
has already been
claimed, a long time ago, I don't rmember by whom. Sp has the connection
between Samson and
Herakles.
Yours,
--
Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
44905 Beit Berl Post Office
Israel






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