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Re: iyzevel

From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
To: George Athas <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: iyzevel
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:45:15 -0500

(george athas wrote)
>Take the name Jezebel (Iy-zebel) - I don't think a queen would have
>really had such a name. It's probably been changed to reflect a value
>judgment of the writer's ideology.

with 'i' 'coast/island' and 'honorable' names like zvulun, what's wrong
with i-zevul/izevel?
'island of Honor' for the daughter of the king of tyre?
granted it may also have been punned: heb: zevel, arab: zibl //--dung. (cf
2K9.37)

bivraxa leshabbat shalom
randall buth

Re: iyzevel, yochanan bitan, 02/05/1999
- Re: iyzevel, George Athas, 02/07/1999