From: Torsten
Message: 68090
Date: 2011-09-29
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> > I've earlier mentioned some intriguing connections between Jewish law at the time of the Book of Judges and Germanic Law.
> >
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/67185
> > and ff., esp.
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/67353
> > and further
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/67279
> >
> > Here's another fun fact: the Germanic
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thervingi
> > were ruled by kings *and* judges:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/6d7qte8
> > http://tinyurl.com/6jqx9qh
> >
> > But whether he was called scabinus/Schöffe I don't know. It is a possibility.
> >
> > Torsten
> >
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@> wrote:
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> > I suspect some of the Book of the Judges's tales could be reminiscences of IE Philistean/Anatolian/Mitanian mythology. There's somethoing Varunic in Joshua stopping the sun, and something Vishnu/Vidarr trait in Moses crossing Red Sea. Moses is linked to Midianites... Mitanian substratum?
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> > JS Lopes
> >
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:
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> Judaism was also influenced by Zoroastrianism due to the Babylonian captivity.
>
Given the relative age of the ethnogenesis of the Jews and the Thervingi, I'd expect the influence to have gone in the other direction. You don't find judges as rulers in the contemporaneous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greuthungi
or the earlier Germani of the 1st century BCE under Ariovistus.
Torsten