Correction: it seems only out of thatthe Jews had it in for the Philistines should have been it seems only out of envythat the Jews had it in for the Philistines.
Wherefore they called thesedays Purim after the name of Pur. [Esther 9:26]
Heb.POR/IM => Pur/im mayderive from Greek pur/os => fire, hence pyre, pyramid, hence theassociation with holocaust = complete burning. Heb.POR/IM and Greekpur/os thus appear to be cognates.
Perhaps the biggest crime ofthe Ameleqi was that they had invented the alphabet before the Jewsclaimed to have been given writing by God. As the Ameleqi seem tohave been working the mines and smelters around Serabit el-Khadem inSinai throughout the second millennium BCE, the murderous thieving Israelites escaping Egypt may have killed these Ameleqi in order tosteal their alphabet.
The oldest semblance of analphabet was found by Flinders Petrie carved into rock in thevicinity of the sanctuary of Hat-hor at Serabit el-Khadem on Sinaiand dates to the second millennium BCE.
In the Hebrew Bible, Mosesclaims to have been given two stone tablets inscribed with wordswritten in an undisclosed language and script upon Sinai from a godenshrouded in a thick cloud (Heb.ENN) of smoke and fire. [Ex.19ff]
Exodus 24:4 And Moses wroteall the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, andbuilded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to thetwelve tribes of Israel.
It also appears that theJews are claiming that Moses (Heb.MSH) founded the sanctuary ofHat-Hor at Serabit el-Khadem on Sinai. However archaeology has shownthat the sanctuary of Hat-Hor at Serabit el-Khadem began as a smallcave carved into the side of a hill and was founded at the beginningof the fourth dynasty by the Egyptian king Sneferu, husband ofblond-haired blue-eyed Hetep Heres (Hat-Hor) and father of Cheops(Greek xiops = white-face). The colour of the turquoise initiallymined around Serabit el-Khadem was probably a close match for theeyes of Hetep Heres, wife of Sneferu, who seems to have hailed fromByblos along the coast of Lebanon, but who seems to have been ofEuropean stock. The cave may have formed as a substantial outcrop orseam of turquoise was extracted from the side of the hill.
Exodus 24:10 And they sawthe God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were apavedwork of a sapphire (Heb.SPIR) stone, and as it were the bodyof heaven in his clearness.
Heb.SPIR = Gk.sappheiros =sapphire = blue stone = turquoise = sky blue (much lighter than lapislazuli)
