(urth) Soldier of Sidon writeup
Ab de Vos
foxyab at casema.nl
Tue Apr 3 05:46:10 PDT 2018
I cannot reach the site.
How is Wolfe's health by the way?
Op 3-4-2018 om 05:13 schreef Marc Aramini:
>
> It's actually in an interview with James Jordan here
> http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html
> <http://mysite.verizon.net/%7Evze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html>
> *
> *
> *GW:* Not tremendously. It was just at the time I was planning a third
> book and I wanted to get him into the Semitic world. [Moving from] the
> Hellenic world that these two books were laid in very largely and to
> involve him with the Phoenicians and the Jews and the Syrians and that
> part of the world. When I originally conceived the series I wanted to
> do a tour of the ancient world so to speak. And I had hoped in fact to
> get him into the new world where there were the Mayan and the so on
> the various American Indian civilizations. They really dislike the
> term Native American, Indians. I realize Indians is not a very good
> term for them I don't think Native Americans is a good term either. I
> wanted to do all those things and after the second book David
> Hartwell, my editor, called me up and told me not to write the third
> one. He now denies that by the way but he did.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 6:06 PM, David Duffy
> <David.Duffy at qimrberghofer.edu.au
> <mailto:David.Duffy at qimrberghofer.edu.au>> wrote:
>
> I have been seeking in vain for any evidence that Latro meets Jews
> or Judaeans along the way.
> The most obvious place would have been at Yeb a.k.a. Elephantine
> Island, from where there are a
> heap of papyri dating from exactly the time that L. visits (spans
> 525 to 420 BCE), written by members of the Jewish community there eg
>
> "On the 18th of Paophi, in the 4th year of Artaxerxes the king
> [461 BCE], in Yeb the fortress, said Malchiah b. Joshibiah,
> Aramaean, holding property in Yeb the fortress, of the detachment
> of Nabukudurri...I should challenge you by Herembethel the god
> before 4 judges: I did not enter your house by force..."
>
> They were originally Judaean mercenaries manning the fortress.
> Their temple has five doors that probably represent Yahu (the God
> of Heaven), but also Bethel (Canaanite, Herembethel is
> "house/temple of Bethel"), Anathya'u (possibly Syrian, the queen
> of heaven) etc.
>
> My original thinking was that Seven Lions might have something to
> do with Ethiopian Beth Israel Jewry, Sheba etc etc - he originally
> came from the south.
>
> Cheers, David Duffy.
>
>
>
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