Alice C. Linsley
Related reading: The Hebrew Were a Caste: Hebrew at the Ancient Sun Cities; Horite and Sethite Mounds; The Hebrew Hierarchy of Sons; Royal Sons and Their Maternal Uncles; Judaism is Not the Faith of Abraham; BIBLICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Competition Between the Horites and the Sethites
In Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel’s Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible, the Swiss Bible scholar, Konrad Schmid, argues that the Genesis ancestor narratives and the story of Moses present competing pictures of Israel
Certainly, the historical contexts of the Hebrew rulers listed in Genesis 4, 5, 10, 11 and the Hebrew rulers of Moses's time were different. However, analysis of the kinship patterns of both the early Hebrew and Moses' family reveals that their marriage and ascendancy pattern is identical. It is a pattern typically found with castes.
The Hebrew were a ruler-priest caste that dispersed widely in the ancient world. Their kinship pattern remained the same throughout many generations and wherever they resided.
Schmid notes that “Explicit literary connections between Genesis and Exodus appear only in Priestly texts or in texts that presuppose P.”
This is an important observation because both Abraham and Moses were Hebrew ruler-priests. The Hebrew clans practiced endogamy so to find a common kinship pattern for both men suggests continuity, rather than dual origins. I delve deeply into the characteristics of the Hebrew kinship pattern in my book The First Lords of the Earth: An Anthropological Study.
The ancestors of both men are to be found in the Nile Valley. That is where the earliest known site of Hebrew worship has been found dating to at least 2000 years before the time of Abraham.
Related reading: The Hebrew Were a Caste: Hebrew at the Ancient Sun Cities; Horite and Sethite Mounds; The Hebrew Hierarchy of Sons; Royal Sons and Their Maternal Uncles; Judaism is Not the Faith of Abraham; BIBLICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Competition Between the Horites and the Sethites
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Aarin in Yoruba means centre or middle and is used in names like
Aarinade: the centre of the crown
Aarinola: the centre of wealth
The true priests stands at the metaphysical sacred center. For the Horites high noon marked the temporal sacred center and the top of the mountain marked the spatial sacred center. Many Biblical figures had encounters with God on the mountain top!
I don't think Alice understands what transliteration means.
In linguistics, transliteration is the process of converting a word or phrase from one writing system to another while preserving the original pronunciation. Transliteration is different from translation, which conveys the meaning of a word in a different language.
The Ar affix is often found in the names of high-status or noble men and women. It is probably a variant of the Horus name (Egyptian: HR - Most High One). Horus was the patron of kings and queens in the ancient world. See this: https://biblicalanthropology.blogspot.com/2022/10/hebrew-names-and-titles.html
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