[SunkenCiv]

:') What you said. ;') As for what the topic message said:

The people we call Cretans or Minoans were known to the 18th Dynasty Egyptians as Keftiu... from the beautiful island of Kaphtor.

Caphtor was the name of Cyprus, not Crete, although that's a common error; as V pointed out, "then the Old Testament completely omits reference to this large island close to the Syrian coast."

[SunkenCiv]

The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization
Lesson 25, The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean | Revised: Friday, March 18, 2000 | Trustees of Dartmouth College
Posted on 08/29/2004 11:19:46 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1202723/posts

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Velikovsky, 1952, Ages In Chaos, p 201, in footnote: "If Caphtor was not Cyprus, then no name for Cyprus and no mention of the island would be found in the Scriptures, and that would be unlikely because Cyprus is very close to Syria."