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***An Early Israelite Curse Inscription from Mt. Ebal?***

Oh gosh; This opens up old avenues of study and controversy. There is much to discuss with this 'inscription'. First, the article says it is rendered in 'Proto-Hebrew alphabet', but that seems to be a poorly defined term. A web search of 'Proto-Hebrew' - or 'Paleo-Hebrew' - does not yield the characters reproduced in the unverified Ebal inscription.

Second, there is the argument whether there is an inscription evident or not. Third, it is pointed out that there is no evidence that the artifact could be associated with Joshua mention in Scripture.

I say old avenues because of a confrontation I created with BAR and its high praise of Orly Goldwasser in her article How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs in a March 2010 BAR issue.

I pointed out to BAR that, while Ms. Goldwasser's article was impressive in its insights, and that they could be her own original research, her article and graphics had been presented in near duplication in a book, A Study of Writing, by I.J. Gelb in 1952 and updated in 1963. I wrote a detailed presentation including the graphics, side by side, of Gelb and Goldwasser.

I also addressed a copy of the letter to Ms. Goldwasser; she replied that she found that interesting and that she would get in touch with me soon regarding my evidence. She never did write again.

BAR refused to respond to my exposition. Now, in doing a web search for early Hebrew scripts and texts, I find numerous articles praising Ms. Goldwasser for her brilliant research and presentation of the origins of the modern alphabet.

I just ran into Ms. Goldwasser's email at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and am tempted to write her and compliment her on successfully stealing Gelb's work, images and all and gathering all the praises unto herself... but to what end? No one cares these days. sigh

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Q Thread, forgive this slide. My original interest was in getting FReeQers to keep an eye on Yuval Noah Harari since his views and actions are central to the development of The Great Reset and the global cabal. I have been distracted and some intestinal upheaval and may have wandered astray.

Q Thread, forgive this slide. My original interest was in getting FReeQers to keep an eye on Yuval Noah Harari since his views and actions are central to the development of The Great Reset and the global cabal. I have been distracted and some intestinal upheaval and may have wandered astray.

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Don’t worry about it. It’s interesting and I think the YNH angle very thought-provoking. And I appreciate your insight.

My original interest was in getting FReeQers to keep an eye on Yuval Noah Harari since his views and actions are central to the development of The Great Reset and the global cabal.

Distractions can be interesting, as ancient Hebrew is, but now a return to the original track (can hardly believe the chutzpah of Ms. Goldwasser). Yuval Noah Harari is one with the WEF vision and after reading his many famous quotes he could qualify as a prototype of the antichrist or false prophet. His religion is technology and as a transhumanist expects that humanity will be replaced by human version 2 within 100 years. In 10 or 20 years he thinks that instead of going out to see a movie and enjoying that experience, movies will be downloaded into our minds if you have the right implants. He seems to think that people will let the algorithms of Google, Amazon and Facebook run their lives. You will be able to inquire about a possible marriage partner and the algorithms will have a better answer than your own heart because it knows both partners likes and dislikes. Netflix and other streaming services are already suggesting what movie to watch next, and they are just now gearing up with AI to take this further.

No one cares these days. sigh

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Hi Bob,

I care! Sure and you're right about your investigation- yet hasn't the author given noted one reference to I. J. Gelb (1952,1963) somewhere?

Prof. Goldwasser likely consumed Gelb during basics and refashioned/repackaged the material across her work, as so many scholars do. An accomplished presenter teaching the next generation, Goldwasser engages her audience very well.

LIke all FReeQs, Ms. Goldwasser challenges are decades long- and she has met them; witness this from 2010, in defense of "The invention of the Alphabet" :
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/inscriptions/goldwassers-second-rebuttal/

Better still, as we are all standing on the shoulders of someone else during 'the pursuit'; why not praise her for the body of work she has done in mulitiple areas? Then delve into a couple of worthy non-threatening questions to elicit a response?

Perhaps a cappacino at a local cafe?

Under cover of your slide, let's now talk FLOTUS.

During the development of the March 2023 FLOTUS cover, a StarGate Transporation Ring was introduced in a unique setting, yet something was missing.

It was decided to include Hieroglyphics, echoing the themes both in the cover, and the FLOTUS series.

After days collecting examples and translation guides, FLOTUS then presented the following as comms, which were detected by an astute viewer:

Lets' ask this preeminent Egyptologist how accurate the translation is!

Appreciative regards,
Foldy

sauce:
https://sites.google.com/view/orlygoldwasser/home
"The invention of the Alphabet" https://youtu.be/54TZ8YvV6xs

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