Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 05:56 PM 1/29/01 -0600, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
> 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."

However it is clear that Hebrew ( and later Aramaic) do not see it this way.



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