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David Olmsted deposited Temple of Yahu in Ekron (720 BCE) revealed by Alphabetic Akkadian Translation of its Temple Plaque and Storage Jars in the group
Biblical archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoA plaque on the wall indicates that this temple in Ekron (Tel Miqne) was devoted to enabling the powers of Yahu. The word “Yahu” is mentioned twice along with the full moon god Su and the image opener goddess, Utu, who is the feminine complement to Yahu. Ekron at this time was ruled by Assyria having been rebuilt over an older destroyed Phi…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Three-Way Debate of the Jerusalem (Jehoash) Tablet in Alphabetic Akkadian Proves it is Authentic (980 BCE) in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis tablet was declared a fraud my many because it could not be translated from Hebrew yet this paper proves the tablet is authentic because it can be translated from Alphabetic Akkadian, a script unknown when the tablet was discovered. This tablet was once stored in a treasury room in Jerusalem’s royal palace or first temple as evidenced by m…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Three-Way Debate of the Jerusalem (Jehoash) Tablet in Alphabetic Akkadian Proves it is Authentic (980 BCE) in the group
Biblical archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis tablet was declared a fraud my many because it could not be translated from Hebrew yet this paper proves the tablet is authentic because it can be translated from Alphabetic Akkadian, a script unknown when the tablet was discovered. This tablet was once stored in a treasury room in Jerusalem’s royal palace or first temple as evidenced by m…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Moabite Stele Translation in Alphabetic Akkadian Shows Early-Jewish / Phoenician Religious Debate Over a Drought (980 BCE) in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe Moabite Stele text is a line by line philosophical/religious debate. It was written in Alphabetic Akkadian which was the common trading language of the ancient Mediterranean as evidenced by a growing corpus of texts. The Moabite text is also the earliest archaeological linguistic evidence of Jewish (Judahite) culture yet discovered. This is…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Moabite Stele Translation in Alphabetic Akkadian Shows Early-Jewish / Phoenician Religious Debate Over a Drought (980 BCE) in the group
Biblical archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe Moabite Stele text is a line by line philosophical/religious debate. It was written in Alphabetic Akkadian which was the common trading language of the ancient Mediterranean as evidenced by a growing corpus of texts. The Moabite text is also the earliest archaeological linguistic evidence of Jewish (Judahite) culture yet discovered. This is…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Akkadian Translation of Israelite Gezer Tablet (Calendar) Blames 840 BCE Elijah Drought on Astrology in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis early (northern) Israelite student teaching text blames the cause of the 840 BCE Elijah drought on the astrological powers of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm. It shows a Pagan Israel just prior to the Yawist revolution by referencing the gods Hu as the Healer, Su as the shepherd corresponding to the full moon, and the goddess Utu as the Opener of…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Akkadian Translation of Israelite Gezer Tablet (Calendar) Blames 840 BCE Elijah Drought on Astrology in the group
Biblical archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis early (northern) Israelite student teaching text blames the cause of the 840 BCE Elijah drought on the astrological powers of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm. It shows a Pagan Israel just prior to the Yawist revolution by referencing the gods Hu as the Healer, Su as the shepherd corresponding to the full moon, and the goddess Utu as the Opener of…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Three Religiously Themed Philistine Texts in Alphabetic Akkadian (1160-960 BCE) in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThree previously untranslated Philistine (Sea Peoples) texts are translated in the empire language of Alphabetic Akkadian/Aramaic. Their script style is in the Minoan lineage which began with the Phaistos Disk and continued on with Linear A. Unlike those texts these texts are now fully alphabetic meaning their inner word signs are consonants…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Three Religiously Themed Philistine Texts in Alphabetic Akkadian (1160-960 BCE) in the group
Biblical archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThree previously untranslated Philistine (Sea Peoples) texts are translated in the empire language of Alphabetic Akkadian/Aramaic. Their script style is in the Minoan lineage which began with the Phaistos Disk and continued on with Linear A. Unlike those texts these texts are now fully alphabetic meaning their inner word signs are consonants…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Three Religiously Themed Philistine Texts in Alphabetic Akkadian (1160-960 BCE) in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThree previously untranslated Philistine (Sea Peoples) texts are translated in the empire language of Alphabetic Akkadian/Aramaic. Their script style is in the Minoan lineage which began with the Phaistos Disk and continued on with Linear A. Unlike those texts these texts are now fully alphabetic meaning their inner word signs are consonants…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Official Text at Serabit el-Khadim in Sinai References Thera Eruption (1620 BCE) in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTwo early and still readable linear texts were found carved on the walls of turquoise mine L at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai of Egypt by William Petrie in 1906. They were never properly translated. These texts were inscribed within bas-relief steles indicating they were officially sanctioned texts. These texts reference a dimmed sun which would…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Official Text at Serabit el-Khadim in Sinai References Thera Eruption (1620 BCE) in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTwo early and still readable linear texts were found carved on the walls of turquoise mine L at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai of Egypt by William Petrie in 1906. They were never properly translated. These texts were inscribed within bas-relief steles indicating they were officially sanctioned texts. These texts reference a dimmed sun which would…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Alphabetic Akkadian Texts at Serabit el-Khadim Reference Drought and Magic Crafters (1170-1140 BCE) in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTranslations of three graffiti type texts dating from the last years of ancient turquoise mine at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai blame jealousy for an ongoing drought. This drought is continuing due to the lack of magic crafters needed to overcome that negative emotional magic. These texts are in alphabetic Akkadian using a script which derives…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Alphabetic Akkadian Texts at Serabit el-Khadim Reference Drought and Magic Crafters (1170-1140 BCE) in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTranslations of three graffiti type texts dating from the last years of ancient turquoise mine at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai blame jealousy for an ongoing drought. This drought is continuing due to the lack of magic crafters needed to overcome that negative emotional magic. These texts are in alphabetic Akkadian using a script which derives…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translations Texts at Egyptian Wadi el-Hol (1550 BCE) in Akkadian in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe inscriptions at Wadi el-Hol just north of Memphis, Egypt are a late variant of Minoan Linear A showing its progression towards alphabetic writing with its treatment of phoneme signs more as wildcard signs able to be followed by any vowel sound. The Minoans were in Egypt during the early 18th dynasty as revealed by Minoan artwork discovered at…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translations Texts at Egyptian Wadi el-Hol (1550 BCE) in Akkadian in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe inscriptions at Wadi el-Hol just north of Memphis, Egypt are a late variant of Minoan Linear A showing its progression towards alphabetic writing with its treatment of phoneme signs more as wildcard signs able to be followed by any vowel sound. The Minoans were in Egypt during the early 18th dynasty as revealed by Minoan artwork discovered at…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translation of 9 Commercial Minoan Linear A Texts from Malia (1700 BCE) in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThese are the first Minoan Linear-A translations ever made. Linear-A was solvable because its texts fit between the previously translated and highly pictographic Phaistos Disk (Olmsted May 2020) and the previously translated first alphabetic texts from the Sinai (Serabit el-Khadim) (Olmsted not yet published). The underlaying language of all these…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translation of the Minoan Phaistos Disk in Alphabetic Akkadian in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe Phaistos Disk is a hybrid phonic and alphabetic text written in the empire language of Akkadian dating to about 1800 BCE. It is a philosophical debate about the cause of a recent drought and it represents the first use of alphabetic letters. It has many letter sign similarities with the pure Alphabetic Akkadian texts found at Serabit el Khadim…[Read more]
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Christine Mitchell deposited What to Do with All These Canaanites? A Settler-Canadian Reading of Biblical Conquest Stories in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoReading the biblical conquest stories in light of the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
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Christine Mitchell deposited David and Darics: Reconsidering an Anachronism in 1 Chronicles 29 in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis note examines the use of the term “daric” in 1 Chr 29:7 for its ideological purposes, concluding that the anachronism was deployed purposely to signal resistance to imperial rule.
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