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Re: Sabbath Origins (Stephen)

From: "Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Sabbath Origins (Stephen)
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 21:35:08 -0500

At 08:08 AM 12/5/99 +0100, Ian Hutchesson wrote:
>Languages form a multiple taxonomy -- one excludes the other -- so the
>writer says that Adar is of the Syrian tongue -- which indicates not
>Hebrew.

Sorry, but this isn't how languages work. For example, "casa" is
"home" in both Spanish and Italian. It is a fallacy to assume that
just because a word is Aramaic, then the word is not Hebrew. Besides,
you still haven't established that the author/editor of 2 Macc. know
what he was talking about.

Stephen Carlson
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Re: Sabbath Origins (Stephen), Ian Hutchesson, 12/05/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re[2]: Sabbath Origins (Stephen), peter_kirk, 12/05/1999
- Re: Sabbath Origins (Stephen), Stephen C. Carlson, 12/05/1999
- Re: Sabbath Origins (Stephen), Ian Hutchesson, 12/06/1999
- Re: Sabbath Origins (Stephen), Stephen C. Carlson, 12/06/1999