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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Israel
  • Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 09:28:24 -0700


[snip]
> "Israel" is a name, and no name "literally mean"s anything, though it may
> have a derivation or etymology and may be chosen because of that derivation.
> Let me recommend James Barr again for his expose of the "etymological
> fallacy" which applies to names even more than to other words.

See also D.A. Carson, "Exegetical Fallacies" which develops this
same thought under the heading "The root fallacy."

[snip]
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Éist le glór Dé."




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