1. Question from Jim Wright
About the Crimea and Tarshish
Jim Wright wrote:
Greetings Yair -
I was looking over your dolmen updates and noticed you had a link to The Onion
regarding the pyramids being a campsite on this page:
http://www.britam.org/BHR/BHR42.html
Pyramids as campsite:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/archaeologists-egyptian-pyramids-actually-early-at,17568/
The Onion is a spoof of the news, a joke site making fun of the news:
http://www.theonion.com/
And I doubt you want to be using it as a reference for anything.
Also while examining the dolmen updates I noticed the reference to the dolmens
in Sweden that resemble some others found in the Crimea, this led me to the
Wikipedia article on the Crimea and I noticed the connection with Taurus and
was wondering if perhaps this was the Tarshish where Solomon's Navy found so
much gold??
>>>>>The
name Crimea takes its origin in the name of a city of
Qirim
(today's Stary
Krym)
which served as a capital of the Crimean province of the Golden Horde.
Qirimm
is Crimean Tatar for "my hill" (qir
? hill, -?im
? my). However, there are other versions of the etymology of
Qirim.
Russian Krym
is a Russified
form of Qirim.
The ancient Greeks called Crimea
Tauris
(later Taurica),
after its inhabitants, the
Tauri. The Greek historian
Herodotus mentions that Heracles plowed that land using a huge ox ("Taurus"),
hence the name of the land, and thereby asserting that these people named
their land, and hence themselves, after an ox used by a mythical, Greek
figure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea
<<<<<<<<<
Also I noticed that The Strong's Concordance says 'Tarshish" means "yellow
Jasper" was wondering if perhaps this was amber, most of which is found in the
Baltic Sea (90%), a long ways from the Crimea, but if a person was going from
the Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea Crimea would be on the way, if the
overland route was taken??:
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8659&t=KJV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber
Many Blessings -
Jim Wright
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Brit-Am Reply:
Shalom,
(a) the URL your referred to was referenced in
Brit-Am Historical Reports
#1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.09
http://www.britam.org/BHR/BHR42.html
we have removed it.
Nevertheless it should be noted that all URLs in our postings of:
"Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator "
are merely listings of potentially interesting sites. We ourselves in most cases
have not visited them.
Just by looking at the titles one can an idea of where present-day academic
research is going and sometimes find
matters of great value and interest.
This service "Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator " is going to encompass
hundreds of URLs and some of them are bound to be disappointing
and worse.
(b) Concerning the identity of
Tarshish
with the Crimea.
We identify Tarshiush with the Phoenician Tarsis (also known as Tartessos) in
southwest Spain.
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesTarshish.html
On the other hand,
the Crimea is a peninsula jutting out into the Blcak Sea. To its west is
present-day Bulgaria which together with eastern Greece was known in ancient
Times as Thrace.
Josephus, the Jewish historian, may have identified Tarshish as being somewhere
in the region of Thrace:
# He [i.e. King Jehohaphat of Judah] was also friendly with the sons of Ahab [of
the northern Kingdom of Israel], who ruled over the Israelites, and joined with
him in building ships to sail to Pontus [Black Sea area] and the trading
stations of Thrace. #
Antiquities 8;181,
cf. The Biblical Account:
[1-Kings 22:48] JEHOSHAPHAT MADE SHIPS OF THARSHISH TO GO TO OPHIR FOR GOLD: BUT
THEY WENT NOT; FOR THE SHIPS WERE BROKEN AT EZIONGEBER.
[2-Chronicles 20:35] AND AFTER THIS DID JEHOSHAPHAT KING OF JUDAH JOIN HIMSELF
WITH AHAZIAH KING OF ISRAEL, WHO DID VERY WICKEDLY:
[2-Chronicles 20:36] AND HE JOINED HIMSELF WITH HIM TO MAKE SHIPS TO GO TO
TARSHISH: AND THEY MADE THE SHIPS IN EZION-GABER.
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3. New Article: Jewish Roots of the
American Constitution
by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
http://britam.org/eidelberg.html
Extracts:
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Foreword:
In the article below "Jewish Roots of the American Constitution" by Professor
Paul Eidelberg
it is explained how the original ruling principles of the USA are derived from
the Bible. This apparently was often after the non-Jewish formulators had made
themselves familiar with the traditional Jewish understanding of the Biblical
sources. Similar claims have been made concerning English Common Law and related
institutions. We (as distinct perhaps from the author) would attribute at least
some aspect of this phenomenon to a sub-conscious ancestral recollection.
Instead of the adjective "Jewish" in "Jewish Roots" perhaps "Israelite" or
"Hebraic" or "Biblical" would have been more appropriate?
Nevertheless, "Jewish" is what the author chose and it is his article.
Not only that but "Jewish" does serve to highlight the fact that not only is the
West indebted to the Jews for transmitting the Bible. It also has had, and still
has, need of the Jews in understanding how to apply Biblical principles.
Professor Paul Eidelberg
may well consider the subject matter of what is described below as pointing to
cultural indebtedness on the part of Americans to the Jewish People. While we
too agree with this, we think it also reflects a striving to express a common
origin while not necessarily having been consciously aware of it.
No
nation has been more profoundly influenced by the "Old Testament" than America.
Many of America's early statesmen and educators were schooled in Hebraic
civilization.
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Samson Raphael Hirsch comments that 'each tribe (shevet)
is to choose out of its own midst men whose character can only be known by their
lives [hence whose character] is known only to those who have associated with
them.' This is the biblical source of residential requirements for
Representatives and Senators in the United States. Also, what is here called a
shevet
was called a district after the Second Temple.
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