Hi Leolaia:
I still wonder why are we so ignorant of Eblaite literature and why it isn't any more accessible. It caused such a big stir in the '70s due to outlandish claims (e.g. patriarchs and Sodom and Gomorrah being mentioned), and then once those claims were disproved, the Ebla texts pretty much got forgotten. Again, I understand most of the texts are boring administrative and financial texts, but still....why are such texts as the one presented above so completely buried in the academic literature? I'm not sure if there is even a full English translation of the above text.
I don't know what the story with the Eblaite literature is, but I do know, having studied lots of histories, that when something becomes unpopular witht he current powers to be, it is suppessed. Case in point with the witnesses is Akhenaton's monotheistic response to the ten plagues. To me this is so "obvious" yet in growing up as a witness I never heard of this reference from the witnesses. Part of the reason was because their chronlogy was 100 years beyond Akhenaton likely. But that's why it got "suppressed"; not simply not mentioned, but probably an aversion to finding this out. Thus the witness culture discourages reading anything that hasn't been filtered and processed by the WTS and they warn of reading "apostate literature", etc. Clearly, because they can't answer all the questions and because someone might find out something.
Same thing with the Jewish apocryphal historical records, like "Esdras". Esdras was the name of Ezra/Nehemiah originally one book, then apocryphal Esdras was written. But changes were made. When you look at the changes you can see that Nehemiah's history with Artaxerxes was removed and he remains a returnee from Babylon with Zerubbabel. So there is no doubt that Nehemiah in Jewish culture is understood historically here. Yet Christians and JWs will claim the Nehemiah mentioned here is "a different" Nehemiah. Still, I only casually heard about the apocryphal books. Bottom line is that Esdras was written as a substitute book of history for the Jews that was "politically correct" for Persian history since Xerxes was claiming to be his own son and the Jews were cooperating. Ezra/Nehemiah's reference to Nehemiah made him too old for the historical expansion of the Persian Period. But it's RIGHT THERE yet people don't refer to it. It's avoided.
Same thing with Persepolis. If you look close enough you can see Xerxes with his larger right hand being shown off from both sides, proving his hand was already famous and thus he ended up being dubbed "Artaxerxes, Longimanus". Yet while you'll find numerous books in Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, EGYPT, Palestine, Caanan....it's extremely rare that anyone knows a whole lot about the Persian Period artifacts and historical references. But it's understandably why: because people knowing about these things are going to come up with questions and worse conclusions about what is being covered up.
So, it's possible that some of these tablets might contain information that supports one way or another one side or another in this Bible vs secular debate and they just as soon keep it a secret.
Also think about who CONTROLS all of this. Are they people without bias. I found a cryptic reference by an author who published astronomical texts that listed "Artaxerxes who was also known as Arses (Xerxes)". So those texts exist! He also published, quite rarely, a copy of the SK400 astronomical text. This text can now be used to redate year 7 of Nebuchadnezzar to 541BCE. At any rate, he tells in his book where he had been invited to study ancient texts at the British Museum. His research was in another area than history, more science and astronomy. But apparently going through all those texts, many of which are not translated and maybe never will be, he apparently discovered that Xerxes and Artaxerxes were the same king. When he confronted the curators they promptly and rudely threw him out of the museum and told him never to come back. He probably threatened to publish what he found and maybe he did, but of what use since the rich have power to suppress anything, besides, who would listen? So he decided to hide the references in an obscure book, but he told about how the British Museum had thrown him out.
Point being likely there is an abundance of ancient texts around, that if they were in common distribution might be construed to support who knows what? What we have available is only what a few people who control all of this information want to let out! And that which is out, they avoid discussing.
So my guess is that there is something in these tablets that probably cause more questions and conflicts than want to be dealt with and so maybe that's why it is being avoided, like so many other little sore spots that don't agree with what the original Catholic Pope wanted to establish as the official history, though not necessarily the truth.
That's one of the advantages of secret societies and the Illuminati. If you saw the movie "1974" it's based on that. And that is: "He who controls the past, controls the present. He who controls the present, controls the future. But he who controls the present also controls the past."
That movie was about rewriting history, changing old newspapers and rewriting history, which is easy to do in the next generation. So for instance all this stuff I'm posting is just here now, but later, it could all be ERASED and you won't find any references to it. That's why, I believe, some of the discussion board moderators HATED WITH A PASSION that I'd sign on as various different people. Because when you do that, it is REALLY HARD to get rid of people's posts with one quick search. But if you post under one name, then WHOSH! you can be gone quite quickly by a selective delete.
And this is why some people totally avoid even commenting on certain topics. Because if you bring something to some academic's attention and generate dialogue, it becomes a record and thus much harder to erase. But to help establish "plausible deniability" they try to avoid "hearing" about it. So maybe someone will find something in those texts and publish it, someone who has some degrees and who is a rebel or greedy for money and will expose something and then it will force a change at which point many will simply say, "Well I hadn't heard about it, it wasn't my area of expertise."
The powers to be have their own agendas and propaganda and they want people to depend upon THEM for all their information, just like the WTS, which is a basic Freemasonry control process. They do not want a lot of smart, curious people, independently looking into everything and potentially exposing some coverup.
I'll go one step further. I've done research at several state universities. But they have a lot of private collections in the various departments that you never hear about. If there was something out there published that is controversial, or even agreed with something you were discovering that the powers to be didn't want you to know about, it's a simple process to bury it, not on the shelves but in the electronic index!!! Thus certain publications are not available to certain groups of people. I even discovered that AOL has the ability to screen discussion boards. That is, say if you put down your ZIP CODE you won't even see certain posts by other people. Thus you think you're talking to a lot of people all over the world, but you're really only talking to who AOL wants you to talk to. You know? The people in Beverly Hills and Brentwood won't even seen the posts from people in Carson and Compton. So the internet can control you that way. I only fond out because I posted under different people and as a result the posts that were available were different. This keeps the people they want to smarter than everybody else by selective availability of information.
So what I'd do is if I wanted to know about a topic, I'd go to the shelves themselves and pull everything off the shelf and go through all the books. I'd go through hundreds of books in entire sections looking for things--things I know the library would conveniently not cross-reference! Of course, I found all kinds of good things.
Another reason I know this is done is because at one point researchers from all over the world interested in my research would contact me directly and we'd exchange our data. So I know of lots of archaeologists who have their own rare research and they've sent it me, thus I have a rare collection of some really great stuff. But I never would have found it doing the usual search.
So the "INFORMATION HIGHWAY" is just as big of a joke as the state university. You think you go there for knowledge and information, but it's just a clever propaganda tool which only feeds you what they want you to know, knowing you will follow the obvious conclusions if you presume those are the only options.
Old used book stores is another great place to find some RARE STUFF if you know what to look for.
So the internet and the university system make it very easy to do research but it's also very easy to CONTROL who knows what, who finds what. If a well-known author and scientist thought it necessary to hide what happened to him in the British Museum, he must have understood the control over information that the large institutions have over all information and now the control the internet allows in keeping information from certain people. It's just a joke.
Of course, that's WHY people devise ways to communicate in non-obvious ways, in secretive ways, in symbolisms, in "cryptic art" and "subliminal art", etc. It's the same old game of keeping ones thoughts and secrets private except for those you want to share them with.
Finally, the Jews, who through their own records have lots of information as well! They are known to be "non-talkers" to outsiders. So if some area of research seems to be getting the silent treatment, it may very well be critical information that is known in a few circles but that is something they want to keep a secret from others, well, not so simplified, but basically, anti-Messianic Jewish academics who want to keep something from Christians, etc. Just acknowledging the religious "conflict of interest" for Jews or Christians doing this research.
So for every ten things that perhaps anti-Biblicalists will poublish say that tends to contradict something in the Bible, there may be some great "evidence" that directly supports the Bible but you'll never hear about it if it's too controversial.
Fortunately for me, MY MESSAGE, is available at various places on the net under different names, information that you will NEVER even find unless you're actually LOOKING for the right combination of terms. So in that sense, the internet is a great place to hide information if you know how to do it.
So that's the beauty of anti-secret socities. If you have something you want to tell 10,000 select people, and you're being watched and monitored, it only takes one secret undercover person to get the message who is not being watched who will then encrypt it and send it out to everybody who needs that information. So it can work both ways.
JC
