[gothic-l] Re: Ashkenaz

[jdm314 at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 11/9/00 8:59:02 AM, you wrote:

<<No. When Jews needed a Hebrew word for specifically European Jews,
they likely took the name Ashkenaz at random out of the Bible. Likely
by then they had long forgotten about Scythians. Same as that the name
of the village of Zarephath {written Ts-R-P-T) / Sarepta / Sarafand >>

Mentioned in Egyptian sources as Dja=-r=pa=ta by the way. I mention this
because I was making a list of modern countries one could come up with names
for in Egyptian, much like we did with Gothic way back when, and I included
that one even though it does not properly refer to France, just because I
couldn't resist!


<< near Tyre was re-used as a Hebrew name for France, perhaps because
Ts-R-F-T written backwards is roughly the same as the Hebrew spelling
of the name "France". >>

Interesting! I'd never heard an explanation for that, and that's as good as
any.


<< Same as that European Jews in former times
sometimes referred to particular hostile neighboring Gentile peoples
as "Midianites" etc. >>

Or how in Rabbinic times the Roman authorities were sometimes referred to as
the "Princes of Edom"... which supposedly helped keep the Romans from
figuring out that they were discussing Sedition, not to mention that it made
sense since the Roman appointee, Herod, was in fact an Idumean, a "Prince of
Edom."

JDM

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