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Re BAMBINO no. 28
http://britam.org/BAMBINO/Bambino28.html#Crossing
#1. Crossing the Red Sea: A Naturalistic Explanation from Observed Phenomenon
My Dear Yair,
Shalom and blessings on your house.
I respectfully disagree with the suggested placement of the Red Sea crossing
point at the Sea of Reeds, as was suggested in the article linked to
http://britam.org/BAMBINO/Bambino28.html
There are three main reasons why I disagree with this placement, these are
logical deduction, most importantly - the clear teaching of the Bible, and also
the opinion of the wisest man ever.
Logically, why would the Israelites want to cross a muddy swamp when there were
established roads - trade routes - leading out of Goshen to the Promised Land.
Why on earth would the Israelites want to cross such muddy swamp when there were
established routes available which lead out of Egypt. Consider for a moment the
Israelites leaving Egypt - their numbers included the very young babes in arm.
the young children who probably were no different to our children these days
(stiffed-neck and rebellious parents produce the same qualities in their
children), the aged and the infirm. They were also heavily laden with gifts from
their previous captors, which included the materials used to build the
Tabernacle. I can't imagine that any mud-stained cloth would have been used in
the construction of the Tabernacle. A crossing at the Sea of Reeds makes no
sense whatsoever.
Most importantly, we know from the Bible that the Israelites LEFT Egypt behind
when they crossed the Sea. If the crossed a muddy swamp called the Sea of Reeds,
they would have travelled from one part of Egypt to another part of Egypt. The
Sinai Peninsula was then, as it is today, a part of Egypt. The crossing point
must be somewhere else. We also know from the Bible that the Israelites went
into Midian after leaving Egypt, so the Sea of Reeds doesn't figure in the story
at all (Midian being in present-day north-west Saudi Arabia).
I can also call upon no greater an authority than King Solomon to disprove Prof.
Lawrence Boadt's claim. King Solomon erected pillars on both sides of the
crossing point, from Egypt at Nuwebia, and on the opposite side in Midian
(present day Saudi Arabia). Should you or your readers be interested in this
topic, I can recommend the following address:
http://www.arkdiscovery.com/red_sea_crossing.htm
My very best wishes,
Dafydd in Sinim
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2. Jane E.
Marchant,
"Barely Linear: The Relationship between Frequency of
Colour
and Colour-Name
Value"
Re BAMBINO no. 28
http://britam.org/BAMBINO/Bambino28.html#Jerusalem
#3. Jerusalem Post. The Hebrew Language and Secrets of Creation?
Mere coincidence or divine truth? by
YOCHEVED
MIRIAM RUSSO
SHaLUM Yair!
I did not get the same 'perfect straight-line' results after I checked the
relationship between the frequencies and colour-name values of Professor Haim
Shore from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. I was a physics teacher for eight
years and my degree is in geophysics, so I was naturally curious to see if what
he said was true.
I found that red, yellow, green and blue only just fit on a straight line if you
use the extremes of their ranges?not their average frequencies (as specified at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color), and Shore's 'gematria' (non standard
Jewish Hebrew) using root-letters and not vowel-points.
Here are the points I plotted:
Red, Adom, H122 (430 - 480 THz, 18 [1 alef + 4 daleth + 13 mem]),
Yellow, Tzahov, H6669 (510 - 540 THz, 25 [18 tsade + 5 heh + 2 bet]),
Green, Yerakon, H3418 (540 - 610 THz, 49 [10 yod + 20 resh + 19 qof]),
Blue, Tchelet, H8504 (610 - 670 THz, 67 [22 tav + 11 kaf +12 lamed + 22 tav]),
Violet, Argaman, H713 (670 - 750 THz, 51 [1 alef + 20 resh + 3 gimmel + 13 mem +
14 nun]).
Argaman (the fifth colour, violet) sits nowhere near the line-of-best-fit. It
completely breaks the trend. Its gematraic value is 51. The colour-name values
increase (from 18 - 67 inclusive) and then drop suddenly for violet (51)! Shore
says that, "The five points on the graph formed a straight line". I have no idea
how he got this.
I also tried using standard Jewish Hebrew gematria for each colour-name. The
relationship is even less linear. Only the extremes of the ranges of the first
three colours barely fit a straight line. Blue is nowhere near the
line-of-best-fit, and again violet is completely away from the same line.
I am not seeing such a perfect relationship here. A rough relationship, sure,
but nothing perfectly linear, which I would hope to see.
Kind regards
Jane E Marchant
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3. Towards A New Appreciation of the
Philistines
An enclave of "Semitic" character in Northern Syria ruled
Taitas, King of Wadasatini/Padasatin (the Patina/Hatina of Assyrian sources?),
[Tell Tayinat, Harrison] been identified tentatively as an outpost of the
Philistines.
The Peleset may from an archaeological point of view be considered a Semitic
people, confirming the only identified relief of a Peleset from Medinet-Habu:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h246/
drifter_03/Philistinecaptive.jpg
Likewise we see the same Semitic features for a Sherdan..
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h246/
drifter_03/Shardana_Prisoner.jpg
(not to be confused with the clean shaven manequin figures used in the battle
reliefs).
The Medinet-Habu inscriptions refer to the Peleset, Sheklesh, Sikel, etc, as St-tyw
Asiatics, i.e. in Egyptian terms as from the region of Israel
[[Brit-Am identifies the Sheklesh and Serdan, Sikel, etc as Israelites
influenced by Philistine culture. In archaeological terms they along with the
Philistines were referred to as the Sea Peoples. They attacked Egypt in ca. 1200
BCE and in the past it was claimed that they came from the Greek Islands or from
Anatolia [present-day Turkey] etc.]]
Tell Tayinat, where an outpost of the Philisitines is located, is part of
ancient Syria. The tunics shown in relief at Medinet-Habu [Egypt] worn by the
Peleset, Sherden, Sheklesh, Denyen, etc, are distinctly of Syrian design. The
chevron patterned knee-length tunic with a tripple-tassle hanging at four
equally spaced points around the hem is known from tomb reliefs in Egypt as far
back as the Amarna period. It is of Syrian design, consistently shown adorning
the figure of a Semite/Asiatic/St-tyw.
The horned helmet of the Sherdan is typically of Mesopotamian origin, only
appearing in the Aegean & Europe much later.
The long tapered sword, at one time termed the Shardana Sword, has been argued
by Nancy Sanders to have evolved from the Canaanite short sword, not related to
any Aegean type.
North Syrian architecture contained more [Greek] Aegean influences than did
south Levantine architecture. It is north Syrian architecture with its Cypriot &
Cilician influences that we find traces of in the southern Levant.
The enemies of Ramesses III (given the ultra dramatic misnomer of 'Sea Peoples')
were indigenous to the eastern Aegean. From Cilicia we had the Tersha (Tarsus),
Adana (Denyen), and Weshesh (Issus). We find the Sherden, Sikel & Peleset in
north Syria, all Asiatics, all dressed in Syrian garb.
Philistine architecture although alien to the Philistine Pentapolis is quite at
home in northern Syria.
Given all the evidence as it stands the Philistines appear to have been nothing
more than Aegeanized Canaanites.
Adapted from a posting by
Jon Smyth
Toronto, CAN.
From: driver40386
Subject: [ANE-2] Re: Philistine Architecture? (was: Philistine areas)
The Bible says that the Philistines came
out of the island of Caphtor (Amos 1:8 6:2) presumably meaning Cyprus but also
related them to the Children of Ham and Sons of Egypt
(Genesis 10:14 PHILISTIM) and says that they
were to be counted as Canaanites (Joshua 13:3).
This gives as a composite picture that the latest research is beginning to agree
with.
For Previous issues see:
Bambino Archives
The name "Ephraim" in Hebrew Letters as Seen
by Satellite in the Hills of Ephraim
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