Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>]

"There are no Greek or Latin loans, though some scholars consider such words 
as mgdl 'tower' denoting a military structure to be
greek or Latin loan words."

--Qimron, "The Hebrew of the DSS", p.117.


Ian


>Ian, you may not know of any Greek words in the Hebrew of the DSS. But does
>Qimron? He appears to be the expert, and I noticed that you quoted him re
>Persian but not re Greek. I don't have his book to hand, but apparently you
>do. There are certainly Greek texts among the DSS, some of which have Hebrew
>words in them (not least the Tetragrammaton). Are there really no Greek loan
>words or structures in any of the Hebrew texts? That would be such a
>remarkable result as to prompt a major rethink about either dating of the
>DSS or about the extent to which Greek had penetrated Judea during the 1st
>century CE.
>
>Peter Kirk