On 2001-07-15 Dierk van den Berg wrote:
- The terminus technicus 'Kittim' corresponds to Jub's 'Mighty Men
(ie professionals) of War'
A euphemism in Jubilees as a technical terminus?? Kittim corresponds to
professional sea-vermin.
as well as to Josephus' 'Macedonians'.
This is hardly
Rochelle wrote:
A euphemism in Jubilees as a technical terminus?? Kittim corresponds to
professional sea-vermin.
You say that notwithstanding its military dimension: the professional
phalanx. Nb 'vermin': that is no scholarly way to understand the problem.
as well as to Josephus'
Rochelle Altman wrote in response to Marcus Wood:
MW Possibly the best solution to all this is to follow Josephus
MW Ant. I, vi, 1 where he refers the term to any sea-peoples.
RA:
This is one of Josephus's insider jokes. Sea-peoples was
a pejorative around the Eastern Med. Gen 10:4 is
Taking head in hand, it seems to me Dr. Altman's thesis that Kittim was a
universally pejorative term involves some circularity in argument, since a
fair reading of Ant. 1.128 shows no insulting content, unless one approaches
this passage with a prior thesis that all references to Kittim
