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I don't agree the Hebrew names came from Greek names/words. 1st river compasses the land of Gold. 2nd river compasses the land of Cush "Ethiopia", and Ethiopians are from the silver age in a Classical/Egyptian source. So 4 rivers are a type of 4 world ages (gold, silver, brazen, iron) as ...

From my own research into Ugaritic culture, there is a word 𐎓𐎌𐎊 meaning "To create" that's pronounced identically to Hebrew איש ('š) meaning "Man". This word is a cognate of 'Esau ('Ishw in Aramaic) which in turn sounds awfully similar to Jesus' name. Before Secret Alias jumps in...

The specific Hebrew meaning (explicit in the context of the story) is that the parents of Benjamin/m are old = son of (many) days. Why do people waste everyone's time with nonsense passing as erudition? As an old man and proud father, are you really that scared of confronting people directly? If yo...

It is not older than the Benjamin spelling. The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid of Uruk (1801–1771 BC), who called himself “King of Amnanum” and was a member of the Amorite tribal group the “Binu-Jamina” (single name “Binjamin”; Akkadian "Mar-Jamin"). The name means ...

How does that explain the existence of archaic versions of this name far before the creation of the Tetragrammaton? The Shasu have YHW and the Ugaritic Baal Cycle has a certain YW as the proper name of river god Yam. If the substantial hypothesis that the Shasu of Edom and Arabian peninsula are the ...

The first verse of Homer's Iliad reads "Sing, O Goddess" (μηνιν αειδε θεα) and similar to Genesis 1:1 "the God created" (אלהים ברא). Thus one could say, "Who is Theos in the Greek Pantheon" because El and Theos are interchangeable.. Funnily enough, Theion as in "D...

The inclusion of those two quotes by Rib-Hidda and his brother Illi-Rapih was done to show that the Apiru/Shasu who invaded from the East had their Yahweh come with them. Before the Iron Age, Yahweh was simply a son of El, part of the enormous pantheon of "Elohim" (A Hebraic term) and repr...

Zeus was worshipped as Abellios in Scythia, and Philo's genealogy also calls him "Belus". Ba'al and Zeus are sons of El/Kronos, the ultimate God, and yet they have the names of an Ultimate God themselves. Zeus is called "The Father" when clearly he has one himself, whereas Kronos...

There is a clear development between the Titanic Gods of old and the newer wave of quasi-euhemeristic Olympians, in both Greek and Levantine mythologies. "Zeus" as a name is akin to Ba'al in that it's multifarious and couldn't possibly be understood as a proper name (or even a theonym).The...

To the king, [my] lo[rd, my Sun]: Message of Ili-ra[pih, your servant]; message of Gu(b)la, [your maidservant. I fall at] the feet of the lord, the Sun, 7 times and [7 times]. Do not neglec[t Gu-la, your city and the city of [your] ancesto[rs] from most ancient times. Moreover, behold Gu-la! Just a...