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  • From: Banyai AT t-online.de (Michael Banyai)
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Amalekites!
  • Date: 15 Aug 2004 08:44 GMT

Dear Yigal,

Sanchiunatons work is indeed a third hand report over Eusebius, most details
being made irecognisable by labelling of Greek or Pseudo-Greek names unto the
mythical personae.

But I could hardly recognise any or the scarciest biblic influence upon
Eusebius. As a matter of fact it would have been even for Eusebius very hard
to recognise any biblical parallels in this text. He had probably not the
slightest idea of the similarity of his Usoos with Esau, and would he have
had such an idea, he would have been rather scandalised to recognise in the
Esaus/Jacob story pagan mythical elements.

Should he have recognised the similarity, his reaction would have been either
to call Usoos brother like in the biblical text Jacob instead of Hypsuranios
or Samemrumos (first being probably a translation into Greek of his
phoenician original). It is also hard to discover how Eusebios might have
been influnced by biblical sources calling Isaak either Cassios, Libanon,
Brathy or Antilibanon (names of Phowenician mountains).

His reaction would have been probably rather to make the name Usoos
disappear, by giving him a Greek nick, or demythologising the whole
phoenician theogony.

So, on the whole, there is nothing behind the alegation, Eusebius would have
been biblically biased. His account is indeed damaged, but on other reasons,
of his or rather Philon´s attempt to appeal to the Greek tongue, making most
of the text hardly understandable.

Best regards,

Bányai Michael
Stuttgart





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