[b-hebrew] XRM

Yaakov Stein yaakov_s at rad.com
Sun Sep 14 00:51:43 EDT 2008


> But instead of looking randomly through the Bible, why not instead look at how the word XRM is used
> immediately before and after the two specific Bible verses to which Yigal Levin called our attention at the beginning of this thread,
> which are the only two verses in the Bible that reference Baal-Hermon:

I have a related idea. Why not look at Joshua 11:16 which is parallel to Judges 3:3 ?

There instead of "Baal-Hermon"  we have "Baal-Gad in the valley of Lebanon which is under mount Hermon".

So perhaps "Baal-Hermon" is the result of a lacuna in the text of Judges ?

Yaakov (J) Stein


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