Biblical Hebrew Forum

["yahua'sef" <gs02wmr AT panther.Gsu.EDU>]

TODAH Raba George!

On Tue, 4 May 1999, George Athas wrote:
> No, Joseph, it's completely unrelated. The letters HEH and HETH are in no 
> way related and are not
> to be confused. They aren't really interchangeable at all, despite their 
> similar appearance. The
> Psalm uses the word hawwah (lit: "chasm" and figuratively "doom") which 
> employs a HEH. Eve's name,
> H.awwah is spelled with a HETH and is a pun on the word "to live" and 
> perhaps also the word
> "serpent" in Aramaic.

I see. I was looking at it from (again) a religious lens. I'll try to be
more careful in the future. Hey you learn something new everyday... 

> Also, Joseph, I agree the Psalm is pretty good, but there is no need to 
> post us the entire text of
> a Psalm just for us to read. We should keep our posts purely to scholarly 
> discussion and not
> devotional material. Only those texts which are relevant to a scholarly 
> issue need be quoted.


Ah ok. I just thought people would want to read it context, and I did not
want to misquote or provide any kind of misinformation.  Thanks again!

Shalom.

Wondell M. Rachman