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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] True the arguing is pointless. It's idiotic to imagine that GrecoRoman authors had a 20th century western meaning for a word they simply used to describe habitation and equally applied to Europeans, Asians, and Africans. All the primary documentation written in Greek and Latin has the word [i]Trōglodutai[/i] in it nonpejorative original etymological sense, even [b]Heliodorus[/b] in his [i]Æthiopica[/i]. Nor is it anti-Semitic to use the term "Jewish Troglodytes" for the Hole Dwelling Jews of the Libyan Djebels as did the Jewish authors Sidney Mendelssohn and Nahoum Slouschz among others. The builders of the Lalibela troglodytic architecture cannot be described as troglodytes because they didn't live in houses carved into the living rock. They made those rock cut churches only, and they remain an engineering marvel to all, inspiring admiration not insult. This pejorative connotation is quite modern and could not exist before the 1908 discovery of neanderthal man and the Field Museum's brutish 1920's reconstruction of him entered popular culture and Hobbes infamous phrase "nasty, brutish, and short" was applied to fossil man. Breasted writing in 1906 is using the word found in the primary documents of classical literature he is not passing a cultural judgement that was unknown to him. And thank you again for introducing me to the Kmtyw term [i]Antiu[/i] and providing us with the repro of the original mdw ntr of Breasted's Ancient Records of Egypt Vol I §311 translation [QUOTE]Originally posted by Hotep2u: [qb] Greetings: PLEASE LET US STOP THE TROGLODYTE arguing, because it is just unproductive to this very important topic. I am not for promoting anti-semitism by calling children of Israel or followers of Judaism any names so let us just let go the distraction that I created due to the fact that I realized J.Breast was wrong for claiming Troglodytes for Antiu. The Weni inscription can be found Here: http://rostau.org.uk/weni.ael/inscript/inscrip2.htm Line 15 is the information in question. Hotep [/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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