Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George Athas" <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>]

> 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?

Best regards,
George Athas
 Dept of Semitic Studies,
 University of Sydney
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