Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)]

On Wed  2 Feb 2000 (10:04:23 +0100), npl AT teol.ku.dk wrote:
>       [Niels Peter Lemche]
> Like the habiru/ibri (I still stay with this linguistic
> identification in spite of the phonetic problem about the long vowel),
> meaning most likely refugees, i.e. people that have transgressed a border
> ('-b-r)? However, their identity was strong enough to warrant a continuous 
> namegiving to a specific territory, in the end all of 'Palestine'. And when 
> speaking about identity, Hebrew plst(im) seems very much the same as the
> Egyptian plst, or for the matter the modern Arabic filistin.

 Dear Niels,

 This is the point I was trying to make. Modern Israel is called Palestine
 by the present-day Palestinians; but there is no continuity of the
 Philistines P:Li$:TiYM of the HB and the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip
 and West Bank, etc.  The present-day Palestinians arrived slowly over the
 centuries from all over the Near East as immigrants. Strictly speaking, the
 modern Israelis are the latest immigrant  P:Li$:TiY  group to arrive there.

 Thank you very much for the material about the Sea People.

        Could I please make a request?  You start each of your paragraphs 
with 
 an ASCII [09] character. The effect of this is to prevent the whole of the 
 line following the [09] from appearing on my Email display. There are
 ways in which I can edit these out and achieve a lacuna-free text; but
 could you please drop your ASCII [09] paragraph marker?  Thank you.

> The discussion around these subjects has been quite interesting. I
> have saved most of it for the sake of my students. It will be fun to see
> whether they can deconstruct it into its separate elements and find the
> governing motives behind the various positions taken by the participants in
> this discussion.

 Hmmmm. We can all play this game, Niels!  8-)  As a functioning Preacher,
 and not a practising Scholar, my faith-stance must be obvious to all on the
 List. As is yours. I take liberty to wonder if, in say 50 years' time,
 the "Copenhagen School" will be as studied a phenomenon as, say, the 19th
 century "Tuebingen School" still is?

 Our students' students will know. Their evaluation will be securer than ours.

 Ben
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