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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: virgin: _BETHULAH_ and/or _(ALMAH_
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:56:02 -0600


Dear Dave,

You say:

>That said, the oft-repeated argument about `almah meaning "young
>woman [of marriageable age]" AS OPPOSED to "virgin" seems
>equally artificial to me; wouldn't a "young woman of marriageable
>age" be expected to be a virgin in that culture?

This is the position I took in the paper on I mentioned. But I added a
Ugaritic reference suggesting virgin as a meaning for the Ugaritic cognate
to Hebrew "almah."

Yours,
Harold Holmyard






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