(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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