Jack: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Jack Kilmon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Karl: > Would you be good enough to explain “Sisaq” to me as it relates to > Tuthmosis (Djehuty-mes)II? > This can be a long, involved answer bringing in archaeological and historical evidence going back to Joseph and the Exodus, forward to the Amarna Letters which describe a ninth to eighth centuries BC Levant, and in between all pointing to that the pharaoh that we today call Thutmosis II was the same as Sesiq in the Bible. I don’t try to correlate the names, for a few reasons: Sesiq could have been a name by which he was known in the Levant and not an official name used in Egypt, could have been a corruption of an Egyptian name, the pronunciation that we presently give the ancient Egyptian names could have been wrong for that time, and so forth. > Although I don’t totally discount some portions in the Hellenistic Period, > the Aramaic of Daniel points to the last two centuries BCE. > There you’ll have to discuss that with Rolf, who claimed in an earlier message that the Aramaic of Daniel is consistent with a sixth century BC authorship, and not Hellenistic period Aramaic. I know barely enough Aramaic to read the Aramaic portions of Tanakh so I have to depend on people like Rolf. Clues that I noticed in post-Babylonian Exile books indicate to me that those who were born and reared in Babylonia returned to Judea as native Aramiac speakers, not Hebrew. Therefore a sixth century author such as Daniel using Aramaic in his writings is not out of place. > Isn’t it possible that the author of Daniel was inventing a midrash for > the Seleucid/Maccabaean Period? > Are you speculating that Daniel, who lived during the Babylonian Exile, was writing a midrash concerning the future? > Jack > Jack Kilmon > Houston, TX > Karl W. Randolph.
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