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  • From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: virgin: _BETHULAH_ and/or _(ALMAH_
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:31:40 -0500


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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