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From: george@sysvis
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Don Black (from net.flame?)
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 18:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 18:16:00 1985
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[...]
For any of those who are interested, the American Heritage Dictionary (not 
the small ones, the largest one) has in the back of it an interesting chart
which outlines the development of different languages from an old (and now
lost) tongue called Proto-Indo-Eoropean.  If one will look carefully at
this chart, it seems that Mr. Black's descriptions of the wanderings of the
Israelites may not be far from correct.  As each modern language chases its
roots down this development tree, it is easy to see that, if the assumption
is made that the original Israelites spoke and wrote in this old Proto-Indo-
European tongue, that Mr. Black could possibly be stating the absolute truth.
Mr. Black's derivation of Br'th-Ish as "Men of the Covenant" makes a great
deal of sense, if one is studying the languages and their origins.  Are any
of you well versed enough in ancient history to confirm or deny this as a
hypothesis?  By the way, what does the jewish group name "B'nai Br'th" mean?
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   Do any of you have further information on this that you will share?

			   ...!ihnp4!sys1!sysvis!george


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