Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

Sorry, Michael, but I don't see what your post has to do with
my question, which is apparently to do with ships afflicting
a landlocked country.


Ian


>Dear Ian, would you have read my mail exchange a couple of days ago with 
>Yigal Levin would
>have get your answer before stating the question:
>
>the Bileam prophecies are missatributed texts of Samuel. The evidence is 
>heavy, beginning
>with the reference to Agag, king of the Amalekites, (appearing in 1 Samuel 
>to) and of the
>Kenites in the same verse of 1 Samuel, in association with the Amalekites.
>
>The Assyrians began during the reigns of Tiglatpileser I (1115-1076 )and 
>Assur-bel-Kala
>(1074-1057)a number of campaigns which led them to the Levante and produced 
>some of the
>earliest naval expeditions known from Assyrian sources.
>
>This brings Samuels biography in close contact to the Assyrians, whose 
>approaching may
>have determined the Israelites to begin their liberation struggle in the 
>hope to obtain
>help from them.
>
>King Saul should have reigned during his second regnal term 22 years 
>according to
>Josephus. This brings on the assumption of the historicity of this figure 
>Samuel at ante
>1033 BC, thus close to Assur-bel-Kala.
>
>The rest you can make out for yourself alone.
>
>All the best,
>
>Michael Bányai
>
>"Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it> schrieb:
> Does anyone have thoughts on the significance of this verse
> which talks of ships coming from Kittim to afflict Asshur
> and Eber, (given that Assyria was a landlocked country -- at
> least until the ninth century BCE)?
>
> Could, for example, this Asshur be related not to Assyria
> (the evil empire we know and love), but to Syria? There
> does seem to be some alternation between the two: Josephus
> calls the Seleucids kings of Assyria and Lucian from the
> northern Syrian city of Samosata calls himself an Assyrian.
>
>
> Is there any way to make sense of the verse as it was
> written, given the problem of ships afflicting a landlocked
> state?