There are multiple factors pointing towards Eastenr influences in Greek mythology and geographic terminology, but you reject them all.
The simplest explanation is two words Asu and Erebu which mean sunrise and sunset, or morning land and evening land, which sound remarkably similar to Asia and Europe somehow gotten used by Hellenophones. They, ethnocentric as they have always been fancied up a nice little story about a princess who did it with a bull so that we, later peoples could clearly understand the story was... .........
Strange, i thought the Greeks were known to practice logos, and the Eastern peoples mythos, but you turn it all round because you refuse to accpet the Greeks ever learnt anything from their Eastern neighbours.
The Greeks named Asia Anatolia, after Natalia, where the sun was born. Erebu was a common name for the west. It is related to the Egyptian term for west, Lebu. In Egyptian hieroglyphs 'l' and 'r' are mutually interchangeable. Rebu or Ribu, is remarkably close to "erebu"
There was no Judaea in 200bc. There were proto Phoenicians living there at the time , 'though? It is well possible the Phoenicians took whatever object from Crete to Canaan. You have nothing for Myceneans. If anything Mycaneans were cheap labour for the Minoans.
The Greeks knew there had been people living in greece before they arrived there. Those were called the Pelasgians.
1) I only reject what's highly speculative, politically motivated and not substantiated.
2) Erebu was a name of a Phoenician princess in Phoenician mythology?
Really? Last time I checked, no. There is no Phoenician reference to Europe as a continent, or any reference to a Phoenician princess named Erebu, Europa or anything else... Therefore you have no case but only speculations. The only certain etymology is Europa as a Greek name which means big eyes, and it refers to a foreign (Phoenician) Princess.
3) I never said that the Greeks did not learn from their neighbours. This is a lie! I said what serious scholars say: The influence is vague, not certain and definitely cannot be proven in MOST cases. Therefore it is highly speculative. period!
4) Erebu was not a common name in the West. West is not Northern Africa or "Anatolia". West is Europe. Erebu was NEVER attested in Greek or Latin texts. Anatolia is a 100% Greek word from Anatoli = Sunrise/East.
The Greeks had no reason to use an Assyrian word to describe the East/West, like Erebu or Assu when they had the words Anatoli/Disi. Speculative afrocentrist nonsense is not accepted by me or serious scholarship. I am sorry. Revisionist claims have nothing but speculations.
5) There was 2000 BCE Jericho so yes there was 2000 BCE "Judea". In 2000 BC the Jewish tribes were still in their native land. They moved to Egypt later, when the famine occured. You can call them Proto-Canaanites if you prefer the "scientific" name. Myceneans according to Homer, were ruling the Aegean and beyond in the second millenium BC.
The same goes to Minoans. Troy was just one example of Mycenean/Pelasgian dominance in the Mediterranean (1000-1500 BC).
The Phoenicians were not attested before the Greeks!!! Even their alphabet (if it was really theirs) was invented well after the Greek script, half a millenium earlier!
6) You don't understand who the Pelasgians were.... Pelasgians were the proto-Greeks, those who lived before the ones who wrote history (after 8th century BC). Pelasgians, Myceneans etc. not only wrote in Greek since 1500 BC, but they also spoke the same language since at least 2000 BC. To detach ancient proto-helladic civilization (circa 3000 BC) from Pelasgians/Myceneans etc. is an unfounded speculation and nothing more.
