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I expect a whole piece of cloth, not now, but in the by and by, as measured by my capacity to recognize, to interpret and to choose the most supreme value of all over the myriad of lesser ones. The bits and pieces of the written history trails are just about all we have at hand, and the really olden stuff, the ancient stuff is stored away somewhere in protected settings. Though we have instant pictures of written records enticing us and awing us (I speak for myself) to imagine the past and to imagine who were those people who put down those marks in the first place. What were their constraints? What were their cultural dictates? What were their motives?
Do you think we’ve made fetishes of olden written records?
Here is a paragraph from a modern written record, out of context of course, which describes what well-meaning people did to this bit of history. No doubt they intended to do the right thing.
New Testament authors and later Christian writers further complicated the distortion of Hebrew history by their well-meant attempts to transcendentalize the Jewish prophets. Thus has Hebrew history been disastrously exploited by both Jewish and Christian writers. Secular Hebrew history has been thoroughly dogmatized. It has been converted into a fiction of sacred history and has become inextricably bound up with the moral concepts and religious teachings of the so-called Christian nations.Hi Mara,
Regarding those « bits and pieces of the written history trails » you mentioned, recent articles suggest that more of the story may soon be told!
For example, from: AI Translates Cuneiform
« Researchers have unearthed hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets, but many remain untranslated.
Translating an ancient language is a time-intensive process, and only a few hundred experts are qualified to perform it.
A recent study describes a new AI that produces high-quality translations of ancient texts. »For reference, see Paper 77:4.8 (page 860.3):
« And these tablets, descriptive of Dilmun, the paradise of men and God, are now silently resting on the dusty shelves of many museums.« (77:4.8)
Nigel
“And these tablets, descriptive of Dilmun, the paradise of men and God, are now silently resting on the dusty shelves of many museums.“ (77:4.8)
Another trail of fascinating written history waiting to be found! Thank you.
A few years back I came across this author and book: Andy Gaus, an American translator and author, known for his 1991 work The Unvarnished New Testament. In the Preface, as I recall, he told readers he translated the New Testament from olden Greek. He said he aimed for accuracy and specificity in decisions about translation problems. He gave an example about the word « sin » which is so familiar to us. But in the olden Greek text the word was hamartia, (I’ve probably misspelled it) and this Greek word pertained to archery of all things. The olden Greek meaning was meant to convey the idea of missing the mark.
There certainly is a lot of fuss about written history, is there not?
Abraham belong to Brahmin race ? If KAINAIN son of Arpahxad was Brahma ? KAINAIN was father of Selah and Selah was ancestor of Abraham. So?
Sydyk (Συδυκ, in some manuscripts Sydek or Sedek) was the name of a deity appearing in a theogeny provided by Roman-era Phoenician writer Philo of Byblos in an account preserved by Eusebius in his Praeparatio evangelica and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon.<sup id= »cite_ref-Toorn_1-0″ class= »reference »>[1] Etymology and role in the Phoenician theogenyEdit
Philo of Byblos gave the Greek meaning of the name as Δίκαιον « Righteousness », thus indicating that the word corresponds to the Semitic root for « righteousness », √ṣdq. A Phoenician god named ṣdq is well attested epigraphically; he is also mentioned by Philo as half of a pair of deities with Misor (Μισωρ). Sydyk and Misor are described as being born from Amunos and Magos, who were in turn born from the « Wanderers » or Titans. Sydyk is described as the father of the « Dioskouroi or Kabeiroi or Korybants or Samothracians », who are credited with the invention of the ship.<sup id= »cite_ref-2″ class= »reference »>[2] The Phoenician Sydyk was equated with Roman Jupiter, and hence it has been suggested that Sydyk was connected to the worship of the planet Jupiter as the manifestation of justice or righteousness.<sup id= »cite_ref-3″ class= »reference »>[3]
Connection to other Middle Eastern deitiesEdit
A connection between Sydyk and the Mesopotamian deity Kittum has been proposed. The latter was also referred to as Ṣidqu and additionally the West Semitic name Ammi-ṣaduqa is translated into Akkadian as Kimtum-kittum showing an equivalence of meaning between the West Semitic צ־ד־ק ṣ-d-q and the Akkadian kittum.<sup id= »cite_ref-Toorn_1-1″ class= »reference »>[1] Kittu was similarly paired with the god Mīšaru, whose name is a cognate of Misor « Justice ». In Mari, the equivalent deities of Išar and Mešar are found. An Ugaritic reference to a god named Ṣaduq has also been found, a possible forerunner of Sydyk.<sup id= »cite_ref-Matthews_4-0″ class= »reference »>[
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