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From: (Jared Linn Olar)
Subject: Re: POSSIBLE GATEWAY: FROM AFRICA TO EUROPE
Date: 13 Apr 2004 12:22:19 -0700
References: <c57e4f24.0403141731.5b931209@posting.google.com> <00f601c40aee$508f9da0$9b0d0043@hppav> <010401c40af0$dd3b5b20$9b0d0043@hppav> <7004aa4b.0403161328.2409e930@posting.google.com> <40582A2C.1070409@interfold.com> <7004aa4b.0403171315.e1450fe@posting.google.com> <40591FC1.6080000@interfold.com> <ac1a3786.0404051920.56e6a1f6@posting.google.com> <0Lzcc.47119$Hg2.43344@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>


"Chris Bennett" <> wrote in message news:<0Lzcc.47119$>...
> Before someone jumps on that word "probably", the point is that there is no
> way, given the information available about this kinglist, to show that these
> names are derived from earlier kinglists uncontaminated by European contact.
>
> Chris

I've just done some quick Google searching, and found this:

http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Ethiopia/solomon.htm

The kinglist shown there is quite different from Rey's version -- and
much shorter. The Nubian kings don't appear in this version.

(The "royalark" kinglist also has Menelik I beginning to reign in 204
B.C., which of course is irreconcilable with the ridiculous legend of
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in the Kebra Nagast.)

Jared Linn Olar

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