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RE: h'lhym

From: Trevor Peterson <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: h'lhym
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:12:02 -0400

>===== Original Message From Peter Kirk <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org> =====
>The raw data certainly shows a decided shift from ELOHIM towards
>HA'ELOHIM in prose (not in poetry, except perhaps Ecclesiastes) in the
>books traditionally considered post-exilic.

This exception would make sense, in light of the diminished use of the
article
in poetry overall. (Ecclesiastes probably falls somewhere between poetry and
prose.)

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics

h'lhym, Ian Hutchesson, 07/18/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: h'lhym, Ian Hutchesson, 07/18/2002
- Re: h'lhym, Rolf Furuli, 07/19/2002
- RE: h'lhym, Peter Kirk, 07/19/2002
- Re: h'lhym, Martin A. Shields, 07/19/2002
- RE: h'lhym, Rolf Furuli, 07/19/2002
- RE: h'lhym, Trevor Peterson, 07/19/2002
- Re: h'lhym, Ian Hutchesson, 07/19/2002
- Re: h'lhym, Rolf Furuli, 07/19/2002
- Re: h'lhym, Rolf Furuli, 07/20/2002