This little "history" conflicts with all available evidence from the Bible, ancient historians, archaeology and linguistics.
I wouldn't bother to mention it but I don't want anyone on this thread to be led astray. Just for starters, Hebrew is unquestionably Semitic and its alphabet derives from the Phoenician alphabet. The Phoenicians, who were great sailors, also taught their alphabet to the Greeks, which is why Greek and Hebrew alphabets have similar letter-names, though the names are meaningless in Greek, eg. Hebrew aleph, an ox, Greek, alpha; bet, a house, Greek, beta, gimel, a camel, Greek gamma.
The Greeks never had a fish-headed god named Dagon, as the Philistines did, or any animal-headed gods, and didn't even arrive in Greece until about 2000 bc (later still for the Doric Greeks), not 6000 bc. The Philistines were not Greeks. |
