Re: Kings and Judges

All right, Joao.

According to J.Amsler, Samson's story was of Indo-European origin : the invulnerable warrior who commits three sins before being deprived of his strength and defeated. His enemies, the Philistines, were possibly Indo-Europeans.
In my opinion, if there are coincidences in the Frenkish and the Judaic laws, this was not due to a common background, but rather to the fact that those Frenkish laws were written down in Latin by Christian scribes who knew the Biblical precedents.

Olivier
http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/

--- 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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> De: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
> Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 29 de Setembro de 2011 3:45
> Assunto: [tied] Kings and Judges
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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.
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> 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
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> Here's another fun fact: the Germanic
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thervingi
> were ruled by kings *and* judges:
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> http://tinyurl.com/6d7qte8
> http://tinyurl.com/6jqx9qh
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> But whether he was called scabinus/Schöffe I don't know. It is a possibility.
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> Torsten
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