Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

Amorite, because it has been used as the common designation of North West
Semitic dialects belonging to this family. There are so very good book on it
by Giovanni Garbini, but both of them in Italian, Il  semitico di
Nord-Ovest, Istituto Universitario Orinetale, Napoli 1960, and Il semitico
nordoccidentale, Roma, Università degli studi "La Sapienza", 1988.

On the names, I do not know whether Herbert B. Huffmon's old study, Amorite
Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study, Baltimore,
Johns Hopkins, 1965, has been supeceded. He has extensive sections on names
with verbal forms, not least verbs with prefixes Ya-. Frauke Gröndahl, Die
Personennamen der Texte aus Ugarit, Studia Pohl, 1, Rome, Päpliches
Bibelinstitut, 1967, also has a section on names with Y. prefixec. There
will certainly be studies more recent than this, but my library needs an
update, it seems.

NPL


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Washburn [SMTP:dwashbur AT nyx.net]
> Sent: Sunday, 23 January, 2000 14:22
> To:   Biblical Hebrew
> Subject:      (Fwd) Re: Amorites and the names they left behind
> 
> Friends,
> I received this question a while back and so far I'm not doing well 
> finding the answers.  Can anybody here help?
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> 
> > > I seem to recall from my studies, certain Hebrew names beginning with
> > > 'yod' such as Joshua, Joseph, Jeremiah, and so on, are in a class
> known
> > > as "Amorite Y(?)-perfectives.
> > > 
> > > I can't seem to dig up any information on this anywhere, and I'd
> > > appreciate it if you could give me some references.
> > > 
> > > I'm quite curious as to why "Amorite" as opposed to "Moabite" or any
> of
> > > the others.
> 
> 
> Dave Washburn
> http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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