From: owner-ane@ (ANE Digest) To: ane-digest Subject: ANE Digest V2000 #368 Reply-To: Sender: owner-ane@ Errors-To: owner-ane@ Precedence: bulk ANE Digest Sunday, December 31 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 368 Re: ane Kaukasic and Kushitic ane Destructive Excavations on the Temple Mount ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 08:45:18 -0500 From: "Peter T. Daniels" Subject: Re: ane Kaukasic and Kushitic nyokabi@kingcon.com wrote: > > On Wed Dec 27, Th. Ghembaze wrote: > > >By other part, there is a similarity between the Ethiopian and > >Armenian alphabetic characters. Although this writings could be more > >recent, there is a tradition saying that Armenians adopted the Ethiopian > >characters by reason of their ancient common ancesters. > > Do you have a reference to share with the rest of us for this tradition? > We know about the connection of the alphabet, but who made the remark > about the ancient common ancestors and when? Is this a modern remark > or a medieval one? Is it coming from the Ethiopian side? the Armenian > side? Or from a third point of view, such as an Islamic world historian > or chronicler? What do we "know" about the connection of the alphabet? A few of the letters have similar shapes, but they do not represent similar sounds, and there is no similarity overall in "inner form" or "outer form." - -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@worldnet.att.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:35:45 +0200 From: "Jonathan D. safren" Subject: ane Destructive Excavations on the Temple Mount This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0033_01C0730D.0CE3D200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The following posting appeared on the HUCALUM Discussion List, and = should be noted by every scholar of the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew = Bible and Ancient Judaism. Has this been verified? Sincerely, Jonathan D. Safren Dept. of Biblical Studies Beit Berl College From: BEMeh@aol.com To: hucalum@shamash.org, ravkav@shamash.org Subject: No Subject MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:36:00 EST I received the following message from a cousin in Israel. Can any of our = colleagues in Israel (or elsewhere) verify it. If it is true, how do we make this = known? Bernard Mehlman __________________________________________________________________- =20 Ilat Mazar, head of an association of hundreds of professional archaeologists in Israel, revealed that the Moslem authority in charge = of the Moslem holy sites on Temple Mount is now carrying out wholesale destruction of Jewish antiquities on the Mount. According to Mazar, they have brought in bulldozers and tractors and are leveling every single = site with proven Jewish artifacts testifying to the existence of a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, dumping the priceless evidence into = garbage heaps. The only sites left alone are those 600 years old or younger, the time the Moslems came to the city. The Jewish presence on the Mount predates the birth of Mohammed by 1,500 years. Ms. Mazar and her group have absolutely no political affiliation = and her horrified protest is based purely on the evidence. This is shocking news. I urge you to write your local newspapers, contact the Israeli embassies world-wide to demand a stop to this = criminal activity. Because very soon, it will be too late. Every blessing,=20 - ------=_NextPart_000_0033_01C0730D.0CE3D200 Content-Type: text/html; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
The following posting = appeared on the=20 HUCALUM Discussion List, and should be noted by every scholar of the = Ancient=20 Near East, the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism. Has this been=20 verified?
Sincerely,
Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
 

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I received the following message from a cousin in = Israel.=20 Can any of our
colleagues
in Israel (or elsewhere) verify it. If = it is=20 true, how do we make this known?

Bernard=20 Mehlman
______________________________________________________________= ____- =20

Ilat Mazar, head of an association of hundreds of=20 professional
archaeologists in Israel, revealed that the Moslem = authority in=20 charge of
the Moslem holy sites on Temple Mount is now carrying out=20 wholesale
destruction of Jewish antiquities on the Mount. According = to Mazar,=20 they
have brought in bulldozers and tractors and are leveling every = single=20 site
with proven Jewish artifacts testifying to the existence of a=20 Jewish
presence on the Temple Mount, dumping the priceless evidence = into=20 garbage
heaps. The only sites left alone are those 600 years old or = younger,=20 the
time the Moslems came to the city.
     = The Jewish=20 presence on the Mount predates the birth of Mohammed by
1,500=20 years.
     Ms. Mazar and her group have = absolutely no=20 political affiliation and
her horrified protest is based purely on = the=20 evidence.
     This is shocking news. I urge you = to write=20 your local newspapers,
contact the Israeli embassies world-wide to = demand a=20 stop to this criminal
activity. Because very soon, it will be too=20 late.
Every blessing,


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