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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
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Ha! Yeah, I concur with you. In fact, I would say that it can't possibly be comprehensive.
Reminds me of the plethora of ebooks, almost all of them self-published, which trumpet that they are the "ultimate" guide to this-or-that, but obviously aren't. Not by a wild stretch of the imagination. One that I saw yesterday (I've forgotten what the subject was) had only 25 pages or so!
Concerning the Hittites . . . . we don't know as much about them as most other major ancient Western civilizations and empires. For one thing, they were discovered/rediscovered late compared to the others. They had just about been forgotten before their capital in modern-day Turkey was discovered and excavations began fairly recently (recently by the standards that such things are reckoned).
Maybe something that you or someone else will find interesting . . . . "Hittites" are mentioned numerous times in the Old Testament. I once read that Biblical skeptics years ago denied the inspiration of the Bible because of references to this nation/group of people. They said that they never existed (I suppose because of the fact that external evidence of them (see the paragraph above) had not been found). But, there is a question about whether or not the "Hittites" of the Bible were the same as the other Hittites.
Thanks for your post.