Kaptor (named for the Caphtorim) had been the name of the island now called Crete until king Asterion married the Canaanite Europa and adopted her son Minos who became king. Crete was a daughter of […]
In Genesis 10, the Word says Ham’s son Misraim, or Misr (a name for Egypt), was the progenitor of the Casluhim from whom descended the Philistim, who sailed to Crete with the Capthorim (also progeny […]
Elohim gave Abraham’s grandson Jacob a new name, Israel, yet Palestine was named for the Philistines, who never controlled more than the Gaza Strip, so the Greeks and Romans who later designated Israel as Palestine […]
The meaning of the word Germany is the same as of the Spanish word hermano, for brother, also the etymological origin of the name of the Greek god Hermes, his land boundary-markers herms, each a […]
The Canaanites who preceded the Jews to build where is Jerusalem therefore are the only ones who could lay claim to it, but the Canaanites sailed away or were absorbed into the Arameans, Moabites, Ammonites, […]
The Word says that before Noah’s Flood, the sons of God mated with the daughters of men to sire the Nephelim, whom some theologians interpret as fallen angels having mated with humans, but the twelve […]
Before Hebron (at the southern end of the Judean mountains) was named by the Israelites, it was known as Kiriath Arba, for Arba the father of Anak whose progeny were the giants Anakim, apparently of […]
Befuddled by the fact that some of the ancients (such as the Sumerians) used the sexagesimal (base 60) numbering system which underpins our modern nautical mile mapping system, the biblephobes say it was selected anciently […]
During Old Kingdom (Ice Age) times in ancient Egypt, prro meant great house, for instance where a leader would live or a place of worship, and when the Ice Age had ended, Greeks such as […]
Joshua received that name from Moses having previously been known as Hoshea (Hosea) meaning salvation, Hosannah (what the crowd cheered for Jesus when He entered Jerusalem), and Yehoshua (meaning He is salvation) or Joshua, the […]
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