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The remaining question, for which I have no good answer, is how Petrus Comestor came to ascribe the Pillars of Wisdom to Tubal Cain of the sinful line of Cain rather than to the godly sons of Seth as Josephus gave it.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: Grenade
My family has been in the Masons for almost 300 years
From the noun קין (qyn), spear, from the verb קין (qyn), to fit together or forge.
According to the Hebrew Bible the Qenites were a tribe or a clan whose lineage was traced to the eponymous ancestor, Cain (Qayin). Cain, unlike his brother Abel the pastoralist, is a husbandman (Gen 4:2), a vocation requiring technology such as stone or metal tools. After rising up and killing his brother in the field out of jealousy and hatred, Cain lies to Yahweh and he is cursed to wander the land as a bedu in the land east of ʿEden. Yahweh sets a sign (ʾôt) for Cain’s protection, but we are not told what exactly it is. Nevertheless, Cain is depicted as a ‘civilizing hero’ par excellence
Cain’s connection to metallurgy is linked explicitly to Lamech through Zillah, his second wife whose son, Tubal-Cain, is identified as the ancestor of all metalworkers: “As for Zillah, she bore Tubal-Cain, who forged all implements of copper and iron” (Gen 4:22). Halpern has suggested that Tubal-Cain is probably named after Tabal, a center of metallurgy in a SE Anatolia that flourished in the 9th–8th centuries BCE, although its origins probably go back much earlier
Interestingly, a Hittite–Hurrian bilingual inscription discovered at Boghazköy in central Anatolia contains the
Hittite logogram for metal-smith, lú SIMUG, which is identified with the Hurrian word ta-ba-li-iš. The underlying tabal, which may be cognate to Tubal, is exposed when the –iš suffix is removed. It would appear then that some element within Cain’s genealogy, and therefore the Cainites’ (= Qenites), can be traced to the development of metallurgy
somewhere in Anatolia
originally posted by: KSigMason
a reply to: MrCrabs3000
ROFL! Yes because the Nazis were known for telling the truth. LOL
a reply to: Madrusa
I pity you.
a reply to: network dude
I'm even busier.