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To: RLK
Originally from Iraq just maybe, or more likely from points just north and northwest of Iraq, now in Turkey or Syria by a few miles to a couple hundred miles...

But this ignores the fact that they invaded and conquered the present land of Israel from the south and southeast, after their sojourn in Egypt. The many words and similarities between ancient Egyptian (Coptic), not a Semitic tongue at all-- and Hebrew, loan words such as Emet, the word for "truth"-- show the Egyptian cultural and linguistic connection very strongly despite the NW Mesopotamian bio-ethnic (male DNA) origin of their physical bodies...

25 posted on 12/05/2001 8:18:08 PM PST by crystalk
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To: crystalk
>Originally from Iraq just maybe,

Genesis 11:31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan.

178 posted on 12/06/2001 4:34:35 PM PST by LostTribe
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