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[David P Donnelly <davedonnelly1 AT juno.com>]

Sun Feb 20 01:58:59 EST 2011 
Yigal Levin leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il wrote:




I am saddened to announce the passing yesterday of my teacher Prof. Anson
Rainey, one of the great scholars of Semitic languages, biblical and
ancient
near eastern history and historical geography and archaeology, after a
short
struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81 years old at his death. For a
full cv please go to the website of Tel-Aviv University,
http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/directory/dir_anson_rainey.ht
ml.
Anson's funeral will be held at the Barkan cemetery today at noon.

 

May his memory be blessed.

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Yigal,
I remember Prof. Anson Rainey as probably the only Jewish person.
that I was aware of that believed that God's Name was "Yahweh".
Dave Donnelly
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How sad.  He will be sorely missed.

On 20 Feb 2011 at 8:58, Yigal Levin wrote:

> I am saddened to announce the passing yesterday of my teacher Prof.
> Anson
> Rainey, one of the great scholars of Semitic languages, biblical and
> ancient
> near eastern history and historical geography and archaeology, after
> a short
> struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 81 years old at his death.
> For a
> full cv please go to the website of Tel-Aviv University,
> http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/directory/dir_anson_rain
> ey.html.
> Anson's funeral will be held at the Barkan cemetery today at noon.
> 
>  
> 
> May his memory be blessed.

Amen to that.

Dave Washburn

http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur