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To: Brumar89 who wrote (60174)

10/14/2014 11:46:17 PM

From: 2MAR$

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The Amarna letters name several figures in the Bible..... No they don't, that is thinnest, flimsiest pretend speculation made up by nimrods that should be working over at Disney World.. In fact you are a perfect example of exactly what those far later Hebrew scribes were attempting around 450BC, to try to insinuate themselves into that magnificent great past that true Archaeology deals with.

Get it through your head, 'biblical archaeology' is trying to pretend Snow White & Cinderella lived in the Pharoah's courts 1500BC, not real Archaeology that is fairytale. Amarna letters deal with communications with Hittites Caananites & Assyrians who were clients subjects to the Egyptians.

If you want to go back farther then there's the Ugarit semetic peoples in the Levant as well, they had the thunderbolt weilding god Baal from where Yahweh comes.
en.wikipedia.org

Ugarit

Entrance to the Royal Palace of Ugarit
Shown within Syria
Latakia Governorate, Syria
Fertile Crescent
35°36'07?N 35°46'55?E? / ?35.602°N 35.782°E? / 35.602; 35.782
settlement
ca. 6000 BC
ca. 1190 BC
Neolithic– Late Bronze Age
Canaanite
Bronze Age Collapse
1928–present
Claude F. A. Schaeffer
ruins
Public
Yes

To: Brumar89 who wrote (60174)	10/15/2014 12:32:20 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Want to know more about your Hebrew god(s), then study the Baal Cycle. en.wikipedia.org More likely Hebrews were a mix of Ugarits, Caananites & nomadic Midiantes & Kenites (Qéní,) all Baal ,El, Anat, Astarte & Ashereth worshippers, since that's where Moses is supposed to have hung out grazing his sheep for 40yrs. The worship of Yahweh doesn't even get going really till post Babylon 500BC religious reform, when the Persians still ruled & adminstered Jerusalem, you do remember the Persians right? The Persians didn't disappear into the night, Jews were subject peoples down to beyond 400BC who took much from them. (see coin 400BC next post) Kenites en.wikipedia.org Kenite hypothesis The " Kenite hypothesis" supposes that the Hebrews adopted the cult of Yahweh from the Midianites (who worshipped Baal )via the "Kenites." This view, first proposed by F. W. Ghillany, afterward independently by Cornelis Petrus Tiele (1872), and more fully by Stade, has been more completely worked out by Karl Budde; it is accepted by H. Guthe, Gerrit Wildeboer, H. P. Smith, and G. A. Barton. [9]

To: Brumar89 who wrote (60174)	10/15/2014 12:48:12 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Here's your 'Yahu' (Yahoo), riding a winged horse (no less) on a coin made by the Perisan admininstration in Jerusalem 400BC. But according to you the Persians had no influence though right? (quit the clowning) A YHD drachm, a silver coin probably struck by the Persian administration in Jerusalem (4th century BC). The coin shows a deity seated on a winged wheel, sometimes interpreted as a depiction of Yahweh (Yahu). The legend reads either "YHD" (" Judea") or "YHW"' ("Yahu").