Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

very interesting, nir ....

fact represents the foundation in ruins ...

faith = pretty walls built on it.

the picture says it all ....; in technicolor video; the big border between
what we know and what we believe & suppose .... about prophets and their
language .... and their captors.


http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/01/02/arts/1248069440724/babylon-ancient-site-modern-problems.html

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. 
<nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>wrote:

> karl, fred,
>
> just a couple of side remarks:
>
> > that faith, not fact, dictates whether hebrew, hurrian, hittite or some
> other language was spoken & written in hebron ... in 882 b.c.
>
> 1. if i am not wrong, the period of david and solomon in particular is an
> archaeological black hole, in the sense (i think) that no archeological
> finding can be linked directly to their kingdom. some recent israeli
> archeologists even went as far as doubt whether these historical
> figures did exist. if this is the archeological picture, fred, your
> question may remain without any significant answer. we are reduced
> to studying names of biblical people and places, whose interpretation
> (as seen in this forum) is often unclear.
>
> 2. i think it is pretty established, on the basis of archeological
> findings, that semitic did form a linguistic continuum from
> ethiopia to messopotamia. perhaps the most interesting pieces of
> evidence, as far as the bible is concerned, are the mesha stone and
> the story of gilgamesh.
>
> regards
> nir cohen
>
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