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41 pages of results. 111. Cushan Rishathaim [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Joshua and the elders but if we allowed approximately a quarter of a century that would take us to about the time of the Amarna period, for the early period of the Judges, and the time for the oppressions of that book to begin. As the first of these Cushan could make a fairly good chronological fit as Tushratta. The linguistics, however, do not make for a very good fit even allowing for phonetic shifts. In addition to this Tushratta is not known to have been so militarily venturesome as to have ranged this far and wide from home base. Since we are dealing with an unknown quantity with respect to the length of the time period of Joshua and ...
112. The Beginning of Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... cycles of time. In Greek this god is called by the very word time, since Kronos is the same as chronos, that is, time. We call him Saturnus because he saturates himself with years. (10) Stecchini goes on with: The etymological connection of the two words Kronos and chronos has been positively affirmed by some linguists and strongly denied by others, because, on the one hand, the semantic similarity of the two words is evident and, on the other, from a technical linguistic point of view, the difference between the K and the ch is most significant. (11) The association of Saturn with time, however, does not rest ...
113. Ras Shamra (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... rabbinical tradition. The confusion became great.58 For three generations famous scholars, to whose lectures students traveled from afar, writers for encyclopedias, and authors of commentaries, all were moved to decrease the age of the Old Testament and even to assume a postevangelical editing of various parts of the Old Testament. The whole argument was supported by linguistic considerations and by a general theory of the natural development of religious thought. It could be shown expertly that one or another expression in Psalms or in Proverbs could not have been employed in the days of David or Solomon in the tenth century, but was a product of the sixth to third centuries. Now, in the Ras Shamra ...
114. Sagan's Folly Part 1 [Journals] [Kronos]
... diffusionist theory: "Non-diffusionists are increasingly willing to concede that from time to time there could have been accidental landfalls and shipwrecks that resulted in contact [between the Old World and the New]. What is lacking is any apparent connection between .. . freak [Old World] finds and Mesoamerican cultural development." On the subject of linguistical affinities, Padden, in taking no less than Cyrus Gordon to task, noted that "competent linguists simply do not compare isolated words of unrelated languages in order to demonstrate historical relationships. No one has yet established a continuity of linguistic families between the hemispheres in the pre-Columbian period" (Padden, "On Diffusionism and Historicity," ...
115. A Chronological Note on the Kassites [Journals] [Aeon]
... (1124 to 1103 BCE), whereas the Chaldean challenging his first millennium Iranian overlords was Nebuchadrezzar III who revolted around 522/521 BCE. Not only names from the fifteenth/fourteenth century BCE Kassites reappear much later in the mid-first millennium Chaldean times. Texts in Akkadian written from around 2000/1900 BCE to 600 BCE or later are linguistically so similar to each other that even the finest philologists of our time have the greatest difficulty assigning a cuneiform tablet to its proper millennium: To focus on the intellectual, scientific, or religious history of the [Kassite] period, it would be necessary to be able to date the pertinent documents with more precision so that Middle Babylonian ...
116. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... a radical revision of accepted ancient chronology. . . . Nicolas Fréret . . . the first permanent secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions, . . . [i ]n a series of monumental studies published in the acts of this academy . . . foresaw the immense advances that could be made in the study of ancient history by combining linguistics, mythology, chronology, geography, astronomy [and technology] and the history of science in general . . . concerning the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Persia, India, and China."7 [emphasis added] This was in very great measure the approach of Immanuel Velikovsky. This author has emphasized the scientific and technological data as ...
117. Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophe by Fred Warshofsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. V No. 4 (Summer 1980) Home | Issue Contents Doomsday: The Science of Catastrophe by Fred Warshofsky (Reader's Digest Press, 1977; Pocket Books, N. Y., 1979, 260 pp. $2 .25) Reviewed by Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Drew University, Madison, N. J. Fred Warshofsky, a prize-winning science writer, has here produced an excellent short overview of catastrophic theories on nearly everything from the "Big Bang" that could have created the cosmos to the thermonuclear holocaust that may terminate social order on Earth. Of the twelve chapters in the book, the three best ...
118. A Response to Forrest [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol VI No 4 (1984) Home | Issue Contents A Response to Forrest MALCOLM LOWERY Malcolm Lowery B.A . is a linguist and translator, and the founding Editor of the SIS Review to which he has contributed numerous articles and reviews. In particular he has been conducting a major research project on the date and interpretation of the "Papyrus Ipuwer", an advance report of which was published in SISR II:3 . With respect to Velikovsky's interpretation the "Papyrus Ipawer", Forrest has raised several points worthy of further consideration. However, both the methodology and bibliography of Forrest's study have serious flaws. Velikovsky's Sources is an exercise in ...
119. Mythology and Repression [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Review Vol III No 1 (Summer 1978) "Glasgow Conference Report" Home | Issue Contents Mythology and Repression A Response to the Dialogue between Peter James and Han Kloosterman on pp. 3-7 of the December, 1976, issue (Vol.1 , No.2 ) of CATASTROPHIST GEOLOGY by Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey 07940, U.S .A . On the subject of Velikovskian Theory, I find that I stand closer to James than to Kloosterman. On p. 7, Kloosterman writes, "Velikovsky cannot have it both ways... valuating myth as a source of historical information and claiming ...
120. Earth Magic: A Review by FRANCIS HITCHING [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. III No. 4 (Summer 1978) Home | Issue Contents Earth Magic by FRANCIS HITCHING (William Morrow and Co., New York, 1977; 320 pp., $10.00) Reviewed by Roger W. Wescott Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Drew University, Madison, N. J. Arthur Clarke once remarked that "every uncomprehended technology is, in principle, magic." The magic that Francis Hitching treats in this lucidly written and engrossing book is the vanished technology which he believes to have been made possible by the far-flung pre-Christian network of rough-hewn megaliths. Although Stonehenge in southern England is the best known of these megalithic complexes ...
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