01-20-2008, 04:40 PM
Amos 9:7
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the L-RD. Have not I brought up... the Philistines from Caphtor?
Zephaniah 2: 5,
Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast,
you nation of the Cher'ethites!
The word of the L-RD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
and I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left.
Cf.Jer. 47:4
In 1904, A.H. Sayce speculated that a heiroglyphic at Kom Ombo that listed Kaptar was not a transcription for Caphtor. The site only dates to a New Testament Era.
But others since, have read Kasluhet from the same New Testament era hieroglyphic work, and cited the possibility of being the Casluhim of Genesis 10:14 and I Chronicles 1:12
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
We see the Casluhim as cousins to the Caphtorim ...the Hyksos were cousins to the Aegean based Philistines.
In Genesis we see that the origin of Caphtor was first in Mesopotamia: Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, etc. and a few verses later, our above verse.
The Caphtorim are the Hyksos, who inhabited Egypt, and are identified as Assyrian/Syrian in origin by Isaiah 52:4.
After leaving Assyria, the Hyksos/Caphtorim perhaps accompanied by Hyksos/Casluhim settled Egypt in circa 1792 B.C.,
the Casluhim/Hyksos colonized the ancient Aegean in the 1580s B.C.,
and then the majority Caphtorim Hyksos were expelled to the coastlands of Canaan/Israel in 1551 B.C. less than a month after the Hebrew Exodus.
When their armies were drowned in the Red Sea, the Hyksos as Caphtorites were brought up out of Egypt like the Hebrews.
"...the kings of Thebais [i.e., Pharoahs at Thebes controlled by the Hyksos at Memphis] and the other parts of Egypt made an insurrection against the [Hyksos]... [after which the Hyksos survivors] went away with their whole families and effects, not fewer in number than 240,000...and built a city in that country which is now called Judea, and ...called it Jerusalem."
Josephus, Against Apion, 1.14
And when the Hebrews spied the land, after a divergence to Mount Sinai in Arabia, the Hebrew spies later seeing the largest of these male survivors having gigantism at the gates, etc., of the new city walls freshly built by the 240,000 Caphtorite survivors and were sore afraid.
When the malnourished and short in stature Hebrews stood next to one or several of these Hyksos having gigantism, it easily explains the context of being a grasshopper, when one is 4' 6' to 5' standing next to some one or a couple of people well over 7' in height.
Who were the Caphtorites? The Hyksos, an oppressor of Hebrews both before and after the Exodus.
Shalom.
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the L-RD. Have not I brought up... the Philistines from Caphtor?
Zephaniah 2: 5,
Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast,
you nation of the Cher'ethites!
The word of the L-RD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
and I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left.
Cf.Jer. 47:4
In 1904, A.H. Sayce speculated that a heiroglyphic at Kom Ombo that listed Kaptar was not a transcription for Caphtor. The site only dates to a New Testament Era.
But others since, have read Kasluhet from the same New Testament era hieroglyphic work, and cited the possibility of being the Casluhim of Genesis 10:14 and I Chronicles 1:12
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
We see the Casluhim as cousins to the Caphtorim ...the Hyksos were cousins to the Aegean based Philistines.
In Genesis we see that the origin of Caphtor was first in Mesopotamia: Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, etc. and a few verses later, our above verse.
The Caphtorim are the Hyksos, who inhabited Egypt, and are identified as Assyrian/Syrian in origin by Isaiah 52:4.
After leaving Assyria, the Hyksos/Caphtorim perhaps accompanied by Hyksos/Casluhim settled Egypt in circa 1792 B.C.,
the Casluhim/Hyksos colonized the ancient Aegean in the 1580s B.C.,
and then the majority Caphtorim Hyksos were expelled to the coastlands of Canaan/Israel in 1551 B.C. less than a month after the Hebrew Exodus.
When their armies were drowned in the Red Sea, the Hyksos as Caphtorites were brought up out of Egypt like the Hebrews.
"...the kings of Thebais [i.e., Pharoahs at Thebes controlled by the Hyksos at Memphis] and the other parts of Egypt made an insurrection against the [Hyksos]... [after which the Hyksos survivors] went away with their whole families and effects, not fewer in number than 240,000...and built a city in that country which is now called Judea, and ...called it Jerusalem."
Josephus, Against Apion, 1.14
And when the Hebrews spied the land, after a divergence to Mount Sinai in Arabia, the Hebrew spies later seeing the largest of these male survivors having gigantism at the gates, etc., of the new city walls freshly built by the 240,000 Caphtorite survivors and were sore afraid.
When the malnourished and short in stature Hebrews stood next to one or several of these Hyksos having gigantism, it easily explains the context of being a grasshopper, when one is 4' 6' to 5' standing next to some one or a couple of people well over 7' in height.
Who were the Caphtorites? The Hyksos, an oppressor of Hebrews both before and after the Exodus.
Shalom.