-Caveat Lector-
Should've remembered Cyrus Gordon. I've read Graves at length; while a lot
of his interpretations try a little too hard to see echoes of
V�lkerwanderungen and dynastic upheavals, much of his analysis is borne out
by more "reputable" scholars such as Marija Gimbutas and William F.
Albright, "the father of Palestinian archaeology". (Compare, for example,
Graves's analysis of Hebrew poetry in *The White Goddess* with Albright's
analysis.) Graves was quite bitter about his ostracism by orthodox
archaeology and philology, although T.E. Lawrence had been quite supportive
before his untimely death in a motorcycle accident. (Lawrence was perhaps
the greatest scholar of classical languages of his generation, a fact which
is frequently obscured by the aura of "Lawrence of Arabia".)
I would suggest that IE influences on the proto-Semitic speakers could have
come as much from the presumably proto-Indic Mitanni of Central and Eastern
Anatolia (see my earlier post on the subject) as from the (West IE)
Hittites. I believe, however, that the "Hittites" mentioned at various
places in the Old Testament were *not* the same as the people of the great
Anatolian empire, but were rather a people of somewhat uncertain lineage
(see the commentary in the *Oxford Annotated Bible*).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 11:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Heavenly Osiris and Earthly Isis? No doubt.
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 99-10-28 13:23:21 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >Going off on a new tangent, picking up on your last point, can we find
> >evidence for a *common origin* for the IE and Semitic culture horizons?
> This
> >is not as far-fetched as it might seem, since the presumed homelands for
> >both groups are quite close geographically, although probably not
> >contiguous. And, once again, where do the Sumerians fit into all of this?
>
> Cyrus Gordon seems to be THE authority on IE and Semitic common
> denominators,
> a subject which has been woefully neglected in print, probably due to its
> ramifications for "master race" believers, both Aryan and Judeo-Christian.
<snip>
> Consult any of the books of Cyrus Gordon** for greater detail, or read
> Robert
> Graves' commentaries in his two-volume "Greek Myths" for facts PLUS his
> own
> conjectures.
>
> As for where Sumer fits into all this, that's still an open question --
> because at the very
> beginning of Sumerian records, the ethnic "Sumerians" are already fading
> out
> of the picture and the Akkadians --a SEMITIC people and the approximate
> "ancestor" of the
> Hebrews-- are coming to dominate the culture.
<snip>
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