YOU ARE GRASPING AT FALSE PREMISES.

Submitted by IamJoseph (Australia), May 11, 2010 at 03:28

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 9, 2010 at 07:06

Now back to Versteegh's book "The Arabic language" and page 23 and to quote

"the name Arabs as a people's name is used .......by Tiglatpilesar III 745-727BCE and then more frequently by his successors under the form Arabu, Aribi"

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No sir - you are misrepresenting your own submissions. The word ARAB does NOT appear here, nor any other ancient place pre-500 BCE. It is clear proof the Greeks applied the name ARAB generically to all Arabians - a term which pre-existed the Arabs - after they conquered Arabia:

Tiglath-Pileser III

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Tiglath-Pileser III: stela from the walls of his palace (British Museum, London).

Tiglath-Pileser III (from the Hebraic form^[1] of Akkadian: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, "my trust is in the son of Esharra") was a prominent king of Assyria in the 8th century BC (ruled 745–727 BC)^[2][3] and is widely regarded as the founder of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.^[4][5] He is considered to be one of the most successful military commanders in world history, conquering most of the world known to the Assyrians before his death.

Reign

Tiglath-Pileser III besieging a town

Assyrian power in the Near East greatly increased as the result of Tiglath-Pileser's military reforms (see "Reforms" below) and his campaigns of conquest. Upon ascending the throne, he claimed (in Annal 9, which dates to 745 BC, his first regnal year) to have annexed Babylonia, from "Dur-(Kuri)galzu, Sippar of Shamash, ... the cities [of Ba]bylonia up to the Uqnu river [by the shore of the Lo]wer [Sea]"^[9] (which referred to the Persian Gulf), and subsequently placed his eunuch over them as governor. Also in his first year of reign he defeated the powerful kingdom of Urartu (in modern Armenia), whose hegemony under the rulership of Sarduri II had extended to Asia Minor, northern Mesopotamia,western Iran and Syria; there he found unrivalled horses for his war-chariots.^[10] He also defeated the Medes before making war on and conquering the Neo-Hittites, Syria and Phoenicia. He took Arpad in 740 BC after three years of siege, annexed it as a province (over which he placed one of his eunuchs as governors), and subjected Hamath to tribute. Assyrian inscriptions record in 740 BC, the fifth year of his reign, a victory over Azariah (Uzziah), king of Judah, whose achievements are described in 2 Chronicles 26.He also subjugated Damascus, the Arabs under Queen Zabibe, Menahem of Israel and Sam'al's king Azriyau, who all paid him tribute. In 737 and 736 BC he turned his attention again to Iran, conquering the Medes and Persians and occupying a large part of Iran. In 733 BC his armies responded to a multi national coalition against Assyria, he conquered Philistia on the Mediterranean coast, destroyed Damascus (732) and occupied most of Israel (732), with its northern regions becoming Assyrian provinces, He created Samarita from these provinces. Ascalon, Moab, Edom, Judah and Arabia, all part of the coalition, were defeated and subjugated. According to the royal inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser many of the inhabitants were enslaved and deported to other parts of the Assyrian empire, as commonly done by his predecessors. At sieges captives were slaughtered and their bodies raised on stakes and displayed before the city (illustration, right).

In October 729 BC , Tiglath-Pileser assumed total control of Babylon, capturing the Babylonian king Nabu-mukin-zeri (ABC 1 Col.1:21) and having himself crowned as "King Pulu of Babylon".

# Back to the drawing board.

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