how would this prove ANYTHING about Noah one way or another? and of course, being a restart, he was sort of a second Adam in a way that prefigures...
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LAMBSFURY@...
lambsfury
Apr 21, 2011 2:02 pm
David, Methuselah did "not" outlive the flood according to the Codex Alexandrinus copy of the Septuagint. Which is closest to what Josephus declared. Which is...
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Ian Onvlee
sambacats
Apr 21, 2011 2:01 pm
<<Rather, as many think, the Hebrew has it correctly, and the Septuagint translators thought to compete for longevity with their Egyptian hosts by modifying...
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DavRice@...
davricey
Apr 21, 2011 6:18 am
Hello, Tom -- Rather, as many think, the Hebrew has it correctly, and the Septuagint translators thought to compete for longevity with their Egyptian hosts by...
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LAMBSFURY@...
lambsfury
Apr 21, 2011 4:08 am
The Masoetic Text is probably the correct reading... The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) of Exodus 12:40 reads: "Now that the time that the children of Israel dwelt in...
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Infowolf1@...
infowolf1
Apr 21, 2011 4:07 am
the Septuagint has its name from the fact that 70 Jews who knew Hebrew and Greek and were scholars maybe some were not Jews, but they all knew Hebrew and...
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Ian Onvlee
sambacats
Apr 21, 2011 1:45 am
Although this may be true, that does not mean that the number of 215 years is the correct total of the sojourn in Egypt. I reckon 300 years as the correct ...
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DavRice@...
davricey
Apr 21, 2011 1:45 am
Hello, Bob -- Probably the Massoretic is correct. I think the Septuagint and Samaritan have augmented the passage to give what they consider the sense of the...
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bob
bobjaffray
Apr 20, 2011 7:40 pm
... BJ: Unless Canaan was considered part of Egypt Abraham did not sojourn _in_ Egypt all that time. But I do not see Egypt being referred to ever as including...
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Infowolf1@...
infowolf1
Apr 18, 2011 10:43 pm
okay, so was Canaan under Egyptian rule at the time? Mary Christine In a message dated 4/18/2011 10:26:25 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, LAMBSFURY@... writes:...
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THOMAS
lambsfury
Apr 18, 2011 5:26 pm
Interesting discussion.... The evidence shows that the 430 years began with Abraham in Canaan, as Galatians 3:8 looks back to Genesis 12:2 and the promise made...
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Eric Aitchison
terraaustral...
Apr 14, 2011 1:47 pm
According to the www this king, defeated by the Persians, lived at the court of Cambyses for a while. The defeat was in 525 BC, Cambyses left Egypt in 522 BC....
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Toby
zoe_lithoi
Apr 11, 2011 3:30 pm
Hi Ian and Eric, Thanks for the attachment of Tetley's/MOntgomery's chronology. So, I'm just working down her chronology bit by bit. This post looks at 5 of...
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Infowolf1@...
infowolf1
Apr 11, 2011 1:47 pm
Inerrancy doctrine explicitly limits itself to the Scriptures as originally given, and that even now it contains all we need to know for salvation and right ...
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Michael Thannisch
mjthannisch
Apr 11, 2011 1:46 pm
http://ecmarsh.com/lxx/ Shalom b'Yeshua haMoshiach  +Mar Michael Abportus mjthannisch@... Pastor, Congregation Benim Avraham...
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Eric Aitchison
terraaustral...
Apr 11, 2011 4:11 am
SEPTUAGINT, I know of this exercise but have never studied it as well as Ian seems to have. This is obviously remiss of me. Is there an electronic copy of the...
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Ian Onvlee
sambacats
Apr 10, 2011 1:59 pm
Hi Eric, I don't agree with Tetley's solution of the DK chronology either, but the problem is not her methodology and analyses which are quite fair. The...
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Eric Aitchison
terraaustral...
Apr 10, 2011 3:33 am
This book fascinated me until I realised how unbiblical it became. As David Rice says she believes that the text is corrupt. I compared her approach to another...
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DavRice@...
davricey
Apr 9, 2011 2:56 pm
(( Can anyone give a tabulated summary of M. Christine Tetley's chronology of Assyria, and her arguments for deviating from the ordinary? )) Ian, I accessed...
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Ian Onvlee
sambacats
Apr 8, 2011 2:52 pm
Can anyone give a tabulated summary of M. Christine Tetley's chronology of Assyria, and her arguments for deviating from the ordinary? I have a hard time ...
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DavRice@...
davricey
Apr 8, 2011 12:39 am
(( The book by M. Christine Tetley ... study on the Divided Kingdom. So far I have not noticed any bias. )) Page 32 -- (( The discrepancy between the Masoretic...
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Ian Onvlee
sambacats
Apr 7, 2011 5:47 am
Hi Toby, Thanks for your reference. I've read as far as possible the book by M. Christine Tetley at ...
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verncrisler
Apr 7, 2011 1:01 am
Thanks Martin, it had the whiff of a hoax, just like the supposed finding of the ark recently. When are these people ever going to learn that patient...
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Toby
zoe_lithoi
Apr 6, 2011 8:43 pm
Part 5 - The Assyrian Eponym Canon attacked. Greetings, I call your attention to a book part of which is available for all to read at books.google.com. The...
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Martin Diers
mwdiers
Apr 6, 2011 1:48 pm
There is some great information available here: http://danielomcclellan.wordpress.com/ In particular: ...
Hi Vern, Can you link those reports? Gene . . . . On vacation in our nation's capitol MLK Public Library, Washington DC...
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Infowolf1@...
infowolf1
Apr 5, 2011 1:11 am
the only thing I read online, was that there was a reference to Jesus not a portrait. The latter would be impossible in a Jewish context, they didn't do...
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verncrisler
Apr 4, 2011 1:50 pm
I've been reading reports about a new find involving a portrait of Jesus and a lot of Dead Sea scroll-like writing. I dunno, but I smell a hoax somewhere in...
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Eric Aitchison
terraaustral...
Apr 2, 2011 4:45 pm
Hi there, I was pleased to see yet another archaeological link back to Solomon. But why do we not trust Josephus? In Book One of Against Apion this ancient...
