Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>]

I thought that actually Celts wore some sort of britches, and so did people
of Central Europe around 1100 BC  or so - when the climate of Europe turned
colder.   It had to do with warmth.  But since these people were Indo
Europeans/ Indo-Europeanized, they could also ahve been riding horses.

Actually the Celtic confederation was founded in 700-600 BC by chariot
driving Scythian or Cimmerian nobility.  Or maybe they were also RIDING
those horses.  Tee, hee, hee.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra AT austin.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- > -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Lisbeth S. Fried
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 3:11 PM
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Horse and Rider and britches.
>
>
> While we're on this subject. Does anyone know about the date and origin
> of pants, britches? I had heard that the term in Exodus is anachronistic
> because no one wore pants until they started riding horses, and that
> they were initiated by the Medes in 800 or later.
> Whence pants?
> Liz Fried
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of CS Bartholomew
> > Sent: Sun, March 28, 2004 2:56 PM
> > To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Horse and Rider
> >
> >
> > On 3/28/04 9:53 AM, "Walter R. Mattfeld" <mattfeld12 AT charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Regarding the claims that the Egyptians did not ride horses
> > before the 8th
> > > century BCE- that is an old notion which has been "disproven".
> >
> >
> > W.von Soden* says "Riders were used to carry messages from an early
date,
> > though cavalry with a military function did not exist prior to 900, and
> > thereafter primarily in Assyria, where they were developed to
> > defend against
> > attacks by mounted Iranians."
> >
> > There appears to be a significant semantic distinction between
> > "cavalry with
> > a military function" and mounted horsemen in general. An artifact
> > showing a
> > mounted horseman does not prove that "cavalry with a military
> > function" as a
> > military function existed.
> >
> >
> > greetings,
> > Clay Bartholomew
> >
> > *Page 84., von Soden, Wolfram; Schley, Donald J. (translator)
> > The Ancient Orient : An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near
East
> > Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994
> >
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