Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Raymond de Hoop <rdehoop AT tref.nl>]

Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com> wrote on 30-01-2001 03:31:

> 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.
> 

Moshe,

Ugaritic did not see it in this way either.

Raymond