11. Wealth, Poverty, and Profit It is no secret that Algaze overlays his explanation of southern Mesopotamian expansion and subsequent collapse with what is ...
In a message dated 12/5/2005 10:48:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Vern, Talk about OFF TOPIC!! It's angering enough to make one want to become a Marxist....
... <snip> ... become a ... This could be ... off-topic. Let ... union busting, union ... the courts ... the price. Greetings Brad: See the introduction to...
12. A Collapse of the Trade Network Can the collapse of the Uruk exchange network be adequately accounted for by any conventional explanations of market...
13. The Sumerian Problem: We have argued that the Sumerians entered into Mesopotamia during the Jemdet Nasr period. This is not the most recent view among...
Note: previous section now 13a, b, c (d) The Issue of Language--The first symbols used for writing were something like pictures—to represent livestock or...
Greetings all, There `seems' to be an apparent difference in chronology with the following 2 verses, but there `is' a reasonable `explanation'. Act 13:20, 21...
Anyone have any thoughts on Zoe's theory? Courville mentioned it in the 1st volume of his Exodus Problem, but did not seem to like it as a solution. Maybe we...
Hello, Toby, Thank you for an interesting treatment. I think you are correct in your approach to accept the statement of 1 Kings 6:1, and seek an understanding...
In my humble opinion, James B. Jordan has done the best work in Biblical chronology that is currently available. Much of what he has done is available at...
Hi David, DavRice@... wrote: I think you are correct in your approach to accept the statement of 1 Kings 6:1, Do you have a breakdown of this 480 year...
Hi Greg, I looked over his website, and didn't find anything about the period of the 'judges', i.e. from Moses through Samuel. Can you help me find the 'link'...
Hello, Toby -- Thank you for your thoughtful reply. << Do you have a breakdown of this 480 year period (from the Exodus to Solomon Yr 4)? >> From Cushan...
Toby, Jordan specifically talks about the period of the judges here http://www.biblicalhorizons.com/ch/ch3_08.htm Probably the best thing to do is to use the...
Greetings again Brer David! It is a pleasant conversation we are having! In regards to ELI, DavRice@... wrote: From Cushan through Jair sums 301 years (8...
<< However, I am looking for confirming evidence ... Do you have any such? >> Hello, Toby -- I think I do, in the Jubilees which Israel kept. The last is ...
Greetings Brer David, You wrote: I know it is customary to suppose we cannot know the times of future events. I am not a customary fellow. Carry on, my friend,...
(e) The arrival of the Sumerians: This is a major issue in the discussion of the "Sumerian Problem." Speiser had long ago identified Jemdet Nasr as the...
Moderator Note: Remember guys & gals, eschatology is not within the purposes of the list, unless of course it can be related to ancient history. Just a...
Hello, Toby. << Is there anything in Ezek 40 itself, which points to this being a jubilee year? >> Yes, I think so. Ezekiel 7:13 refers to the next approaching...
Hello, Toby, thank you for your comments and follow up questions. It is an intriguing subject. << Then 30 years prior to this would have been a Jubilee as...
Hello David et al, I just realized, that I made a mistake in this last post (I've included after my signature). ... - ....then, logically, the period from...
Greetings Brer David my friend, THank you so very much for sharing this awesome information. I think I have bought into it.. though, I view the opinions of the...
Guys, I see no scholarship here going into the longstanding division of opinion over whether the Jubilees were 49 years or 50 years from one to the next, which...
Hello, Toby, Thank you for your comments. From the beginning of 18 Josiah through the end of his 31st year would be 14 years. If to this we append 11 years for...
Hello, Brad and Vern -- Just a thought about scholarship. It is good to know what thoughtful people of the past have thought about subjects long considered....
... to know ... Anyone who cares to can ... is to ... from the scriptures ... relative to ... 16th and ... <snip> Hi David, Don't get me wrong. I wasn't...
(f) Archaeology of the Jemdet Nasr period – Jemdet Nasr is the modern name of a site located between Baghdad and the site of ancient Kish. The earliest...