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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.12.01 (03) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id=":a6" class="ii gt">
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<div><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Dear Tomas</span></span></div>
<div><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);"></span></span>Â </div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Subject:
</span><span>LL-L "Etymology"</span></font></div>
<div><span></span>Â </div>
<div><span>I always enjoy reading you. I hope my
pennyworth is not too late on this rather braided string.</span></div><div class="im">
<div><span></span>Â </div>
<div>You
wrote:</div>
<div>Coming back toi the
issue of Jews in Europe, it is a growing belief the seafaring Phonecians were
Jewish by language at least, if not by blood.</div>
<div>Â </div>
</div><div>A source I cannot
cite as written, but if I may refer to Ze'ev Tekhes of Kibbutz
Mishmar HaNegev, a scholar of Jewish demography:</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>Ze'ev pointed out
that after the destruction of Carthage, which until then dominated the
carrying-trade throughout the Western Med. & adjacent Atlantic seaboards,
the only people that could pick up the pieces were Jews. As you say, they spoke
a language extremely close to liturgical Hebrew. In the Eastern Med & even
in their own cities the current language had been Aramaic for some time, but the
citizens of Qriat Khadash, as the Romans called it, 'Carthago' - (New
City)Â still spoke it even, he wrote, into St. Augustine's time (The common
folk in the hinterland still called themselves Ca'anani
(Caananite).</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>There are evocative
traces & memories of Phoenecian influence, so I read, around the tin &
silver trade with Cornwall. Is there not a local deity Belial for example?
If so, that word comes out in both Punic & Hebrew as 'My Lord God' or 'My
Lord Is God', depending on context. Tin was a lesser but vital component of
bronze, & in the Eastern Med. at least, was largely in the hands of
Alexandrian Jewish traders.</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>Then there was a
scandal about (does anything change?) a notable fraction of the Temple treasury
(The Temple in Jerusalem) being <strong>squirreled away</strong> in Spain... -
as the Romans called it - Hispania - as the Carthaginians called it, 'Ii
HaShafanim' - (Cony Island). I hear some people are still looking for it. First
stop is somewhere around Toledo, 'Qriat Toldot' - (The City of
Generations)</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>Anyhow, the whole of
the British Isles could by-pass any contacts at all with Continental Europe or
the North-shore of the Med. They had access through Punic traders & their
successors the Jews to the African shore & its hinterlands right back to
Egypt, & that continued even after the Jewish Wars, through the mediation of
the African Church right up until the Vandal invasion of North
Africa.</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>There is no evidence,
& perhaps we have no business speculating, but it is by no means unlikely
for Jesus to have travelled to the British Isles. In any event, in Alexandria he
is almost certain, in his youth, to have met many of his own nation that
had.</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>In any event, there
is no need for a Teutonic or Roman medium of transmission to the Emerald Isle of
the word 'Church', 'Kirk' or 'Kerk', but it was surely an established term in
all Christianity before the Augustine-Pelagian schism.</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>As for 'Bedehuis',
for what it's worth my J. R. R. Tolkien cites the very word, the Welsh 'Bittws'
as one of the few Anglo-Saxon borrowings into Welsh.</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>Oh, pardon my
lurking! Only some people - so many - have so much more to say & say it so
much better.</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>Yrs,</div>
<div>Mark</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>P.S. My Ruth reckons
some of us goyim know too much about Judaism for our own
good.</div></div>
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