And speaking of the Negev

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 12, 2010 at 07:20

Now back to Versteegh and for this see page 32 where we have the inscription from 'En 'Avdat dated 88CE to 150CE and this is what he says

"which represents the oldest example of a text in Arabic the three lines in arabic are part of an aramaic inscription in nabataean script to the god obdoas erected by garm'alahi son of taym'alahi

and let us read line two

fa kana huna yabghina al mawtu la abghahu

Anyone who knows Arabic would be able to understand what it says and it is

and he when death tried to claim us did not let it claim us (see Bellamy)

So did Versteegh make it up? Oh and you can tell them at Hebrew University that this is all fake and they will laugh at you

Oh next? Qaryat al-Faw dated 100-300BCE

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