Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>]

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