Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Matthew Anstey" <manstey AT portal.ca>]

Gday all,

I am working on Jonah, and it struck me that even the NRSV assumes that the
sailors were all male. Can anyone inform me as to the possibility
(historically? biblically? etc?) of female sailors in this story? The Hebrew
uses all unmarked nouns and verbs, so linguistically it seems possible. As
far as I can see, only the TEV uses gender-inclusive language throughout by
always referring to "sailors" and never "the men". However in an interlinear
we need to decide whether ha'anashim is glossed here as 'the.men' or
'the.people'. Thanks very much,

With regards,
Matthew Anstey
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