Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 03/09/2006 18:20, George F. Somsel wrote:

> ...
>
> > A quick passing thought: if Ephraim was the son of an important 
> > Egyptian 
> > official during the MB period, perhaps he and his family were sent 
> > to 
> > settle and form a semi-Egyptian colony at Beth Horon in what became 
> > the 
> > land of Israel. His daughter was in charge of the settlement while 
> > his 
> > sons got into trouble with the local Canaanites of Gath. After that 
> >
> > perhaps the settlement was abandoned. This would explain the limited 
> > MB 
> > evidence at the site as well as the text of Chronicles.
> >
> > --
> > Peter Kirk
> > peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> > peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> > http://www.qaya.org/
> >
> >    
> ________
>
> Peter,
>
> And perhaps Ephraim was ET's brother.  C'mon.  There's only one person
> (?) known in the OT simply as Ephraim.  Why all this unsupported
> speculation ?  Is is not simply to avoid the obvious conclusion?
>
> george
> gfsomsel
>
>  
George, please think before you reply. Yes, there is only one person 
Ephraim in the Hebrew Bible. Who was his father? What position did his 
father hold? The only reason I wrote "if" is that the MB dating is 
perhaps uncertain.

And what, by the way, is the conclusion that you think is obvious?

And now, George, have you cleaned that virus off your system? Or are you 
continuing to send e-mails from a system which you know to be infected 
(as you wrote to me off list)? In any case, please desist from sending 
e-mails to this list or to anyone else until you have cleaned your 
system and set the system date correctly again. By continuing to send 
e-mails with spoofed dates you are compromising the integrity of the 
b-hebrew list and confusing its archives. You are also running the risk 
that the virus might in fact trigger, although you say that you have 
changed your system date to avoid this. I have already asked you to do 
this off list, and am repeating this publicly. If you continue to put 
the general public at risk in this way I shall have to report you to 
your ISP.

--
Peter Kirk
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peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
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