Keftiu

--- In AncientBibleHistory@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jdcroft@...>
wrote:
Michael wrote

> What I was then getting at John, was that Keftiu would seem to not
> be Caphtor either, as we run into the same problem of Caphtor
> ending with an r, which Keftiu does not have. I thus had in mind
> the Biblical Caphtor being the same as Ugaritic K-P-T-R and thus
> Htkaptah. Thus the P-L-S-T would not have come from Keftiu. This
> makes all the more sense when we know that the Caphtorim in Gen.

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> are listed as sons of Mizraim.

Michael, if this is so we must remember that the Ph in Caphtor is
the
Greek Phi, equivalent to the English F. Thus if you say that the
Biblical Caphtor is the Uagritic K-P-T-R, and this explains how
Biblical Caphtor got an R whereas Egyptian Keftiu did not - you
still
have to explain how Ugaritic P became an F in the Biblical account.

And here Michael, I do have a conclusion as to how this happened.

1. The Egyptians experience confusion as to the real location of
Keftiu - was it "with the northern isles" or was it is Syria.

2. There is serious doubts about the location of Akkadian Kaptara -
was it Crete, Cyprus, Cilia or now Egypt.

3. If Kaptara KPTR comes from Hekw-ka-Ptah, how do you explain the
disappearance of the Egyptian H- and the transformation of -ah to an
-R.

> John, if they were hazy on Syria and Asia Minor, weren't they also
> hazy on the Mediteranean islands and coasts of Greece and Italy?

Definitely, they thought Greece and Italy were "northern islands".
They had no idea (until the Iron Age and Phoenician sailors) of the
existence of a European continent. They thought an archipelago of
separate islands separated Asia from Libya.

> One more thing John, I know the-part post I posted (Keftiu- text
> quotes) is the same things I wrote to you a year ago, but I wrote
> the ENTIRE writings on the matter by Robbins, and there were some
> things on there that I didn't ask you before. When you later have
> more time, would you be able to take a look at them?

Can you give me the post number and I'll check it out

Regards

John
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