From: owner-ane@ (ANE Digest) To: ane-digest Subject: ANE Digest V2001 #294 Reply-To: Sender: owner-ane@ Errors-To: owner-ane@ Precedence: bulk ANE Digest Friday, November 9 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 294 ane ANE: circumloqution for virginity ane Correction JAC homepage ane Wilderness of Zin (Mattfeld Proposal) ane New Teleilat Ghassul Publication ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:00:19 +0200 From: Cynthia Edenburg Subject: ane ANE: circumloqution for virginity In the Hammurabi laws 130 a virgin wife is indicated by the circumloqutious phrase: $a zikaram la idu^ma Can anyone tell me whether this phrase occurs elsewhere in Akkadian? Thanks, Cynthia Edenburg The Open University of Israel Tel. 972-3-6460500 fax. 972-3-460767 Dept. of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies POB 39328 Rehov Klausner 16 Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 61392 ISRAEL ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 06:06:53 -0800 From: "Magnus Widell" Subject: ane Correction JAC homepage The correct address to Journal of Ancient Civilzations' homepage should be http://www.ssihost.com/s/jac Magnus Widell Senior Editor, JAC Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S. http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:51:24 +0100 From: "Walter Mattfeld" Subject: ane Wilderness of Zin (Mattfeld Proposal) There have been several proposals for the Wilderness of Zin and Kadesh-Barnea. Two hundred years ago it was thought that Petra on the east side of the Arabah was Kadesh. This notion is preserved in Josephus (1st century CE) and noted in Eusebius (4th century CE) and others. Zin would then be either in the eastern edge of the Arabah or the lower slopes of Petra and area. Mainstream scholarship today favors either Ain Kadeis/Qadeis in the lower Negev or Ain el Kudeirat/Qudeirat. The latter has a more copious spring, thus it is currently more popular. The Edomite border that Kadesh is said to lie in, is understood to be the Negev. Archaeology has revealed that Edom arose as a mighty urbanized nation about the end of the 8th century BCE and by the 7th and 6th her pottery is found in the Negev suggesting she was successfully wresting the area from the Judaeans. I note that endings date histories. The Primary History, Genesis-2 Kings ends ca. 562-560 BCE in the reign of Evil-Marduk King of Babylon (2 Kings 25:27). I suspect that the writer was describing the "present realities of 562-560 BCE" when he described Kadesh as being in Edom's border. In other words with the fall of Judah to the Babyloinians in 587 BCE, Edom had seized all lands south of the Dead Sea to Kadesh and the Wilderness of Zin. I understand the Edomite border beginning at the ascent of Akrabbim as alluding to the steep ascent up Kanaan Sefir, to the west of Arad and the lower bay of the Dead Sea. The Romans later built a road over this ascent. The name is preserved in a site on this ascent called Rugm el Kharrubeh. I then understand that the border ends at the wilderness of Zin, to the south of and including Kadesh-Barnea. I favor Ain Kadeis/Qadeis to be Kadesh rather than Ain el Qudeirat. Aharoni found a casemate Israelite fortress overlooking Ain Kadeis, of about the same era as that at Ain Qudeirat (late 10th century BCE). I understand Edom's border in the south to end at Ain Kadeis (Kadesh). This Iron Age fortress is on the high escarpment overlooking the spring of Ain Kadeis in the drainage basin of Wadi el Arish below (Wadi el Gayifi). According to Aharoni it commands a view of the south to act against surpise attack against Israel. One can see Ain el Quderiat, Quseima (Azmon) as well. I understand, and this is unique to me -I know of no others having made this identification- that the Wilderness of Zin is referring to the great drainage basin of Wadi El Arish, which drains the whole of the Et-Tih plateau SouthWest of Qusaima-Kadeis (Azmon-Kadesh [ note the Targum renders Azmon as Qesam/Kesam]). I note that the major track going southwest from Qusaima/Azmon, is heading for Egypt and its first stop after leaving Israelite territory is the well called Bir el Hasana, which I suspect is "ZIN" rendered in Hebrew as SINA (diacritical dot under the S, rendered in the LXX and Latin Vulgate as SENA or SENNA). Thus I understand that the track from Israel's southernmost border, Ain Kadeis-Qusaima is heading on for Hasana and eventually Egypt. That portion of the drainage basin of Wadi el Arish abutting the southern border of Edom (formerly Judah's southern border) below the high escarpment slopes of the Iron Age fortress guarding Ain Kadeis, is the Wilderness of Zin/Sina, named after the main track heading to Egypt from Qusaima via Bir Hasana. So, there you have it, my proposal for the location of the Wilderness of Zin/Sina. All the best, Walter Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld Walldorf by Heidelberg Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany www.bibleorigins.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:15:53 +1100 From: Jaimie Lovell Subject: ane New Teleilat Ghassul Publication This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------707FA0EF3B9CFB906705666F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please excuse the following self promotion: The following book is now available from www.archaeopress.com: Lovell, J.L. 2001. 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