The Author

David Leroy Goble

A patient reader of old words, old charts, and the currents that carried them.

Portrait of author David Leroy Goble outdoors among evergreens

Placeholder biography client to supply final copy. David Leroy Goble has spent decades in the quiet company of lexicons, current charts and place-name registers, following a pattern that most researchers step over on their way to somewhere else.

Placeholder biography his work began with a single word that appeared in two languages separated by an ocean and three thousand years, and refused to be a coincidence. What followed was years of cross-referencing Hebrew roots against Siouan, Lakota and Dakota vocabularies and toponyms.

Placeholder biography he writes for readers who want to see the evidence themselves: every comparison sourced, every chart credited, every claim laid open to examination. Deliverance is the result of that patience.

“Placeholder pull-quote I did not set out to prove anything. I set out to explain a word that had no business being where I found it.”

Why I Wrote This Book

The Research Journey

A Timeline

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First noted the Hebrew–Siouan correspondence

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Field research on regional place names

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Mapping the Great Circle Oceanic Gyre model

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Publication of Deliverance