Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Dan (was: Where Was Jacob's Ladder)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:47:47 +0200
On Nov 11, 2007 12:15 PM, George Athas wrote:
> The reference is not to a place in what is now southern Turkey, but
> rather to a people group. They have been variously called DANOI,
> DANAOI, or DANAANOI (or other close variants). Sometimes they are
> associated with the Sea Peoples and there is one theory that the
> Danites were these people arrived in the Levant. They may be mentioned
> in the Phoenician inscription of Kilamuwa from Zencirli, Turkey
> (ancient Sam'al/Ya'di). They are probably mentioned in Homer's Iliad.