Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Banyai Michael" <banyai AT t-online.de>]

There is still a major detail, I forgot, which undoubtably speaks against 
your idea of a loan of HB from Herodot.

According to Jesajas XXX, 4 went Hiskijas men to Egypt to Hanes. The city 
where
reigned according to Herodot II, 137 Sethos predecesor was called Anysis=
Herakleopolis mikra. This is a further parallel between both sources. 

I can hardly beleave that Jesajas relied on Herodot or the other way round, 
as little I beleave the same about the rest.

HB and Herodot are inextricably interwoven because they are independent 
testimonies about a real event.


Best regards,

Banyai Michael