[b-hebrew] XRM
Uri Hurwitz
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Sun Sep 14 17:32:28 EDT 2008
Yes, and furthermore why not check the inscriptional evidence of this
very verb, in an identical manner to its biblical use, in a very kindred
language - Moabite?
Check the Mesha stele, line 17.
Uri Hurwitz
> 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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