Re: What's in a Name?

In article <69ba8b2b-5801-4c90-ab9e-684502885d55@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Shmendrik <jpdm45@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 17, 11:30=A0am, hru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) wrote:

There are Arabs in Baghdad NOW, but there were not before
Mohammed. =A0There were Semites to be sure, but the Akkadians
and Assyrians and Babylonians and Chaldeans and Aramaians
and more were Semitic, but not Arabic.

Good point. What was I thinking? Of course. An Alzheimer's moment is
what that was, like my putting "Santaria" for Santorini. Oy!

But what about that as an origin for the Philistine, and what would
the archaeological evidence show about a Cretan/Minoan origin for the
Philistine, if they might be seen as refugees from cataclysm on those
isles, if not also (or first of all) sea traders from those Islands
who had also colonized ports on the coasts of Judaea?

If there was any significant amount before the sojourning in
Egypt, it was not in the Torah description of the scene.

What of the many references to the "Isles" in the prophesies of
Isaiah?

I am not familiar with that. Where in Isaiah?

And what of any common origin between the Phoenician and the
Philistine? Got anything on that, Herman?

Very unlikely. I believe the word "Phoenician" is Greek;
what were the inhabitants of modern Lebanon called in the
Tanakh? Their language was close to Hebrew.
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