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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Aegean Ethnic determinatives on Philistine guardsofJudean king...
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:22:13 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com

> In a message dated 1/25/2004 2:27:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> kwrandolph AT email.com writes:
> I noticed that these terms were used exclusively to refer to soldiers. What
> made me suspect that it may refer to classes of professional soldiers was
> the
> realization that the PLTY is always written with a definite article prefix
> in
> Tanakh, which would have had a pronunciation of “hapeleti”. This sounds
> awfully similar to a class of soldiers among the Greeks, who had imported a
> lot of
> their culture along with their alphabet from Semitic sources.
>
> The terms, as well as the weaponry, may have been Philistine, but in the
> list
> of David’s top soldiers, almost all of them were native Israelis (2 Samuel
> 23).
> _________
>
> Are you implying that the Greek "hoplite" derives from this?
>
> gfsomsel

Any reason why not?

Karl W. Randolph.

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