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  • From: Banyai AT t-online.de (Michael Banyai)
  • To: "Peter Kirk" <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>, "Biblical Hebrew List" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Potiphar's title
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:58:08 -0000

Dear Peter,

Akkadian is a large word. Since not even the worst adepts of a maximalist
view would sustain the idea, that biblical hebrew antedated the Akkadian, the
fact whether saris is or not an Akkadian loan-word uninteresting to pinpoint
the bible on the 7th century.

Should you try to become more specific, and say saris is a word existing only
in the neo-Assyrian begining by the 7th century, than of course its loan
ought postdate this evolution within the "Akkadian".

Othwerwise we should state frankly, there is no subject for this thread.

About Akkadian we speak beginning by the empire of Sargon of Akkade. At which
time point did it penetrate into the Hewbrew lexic? Can you make a concrete
statement about this time point?

Second, Walter´s was that the loanword itself would mark the date of creation
of the work, what I doubt. How can you demonstrate the redactional evolution
of the work in your sense?

All the best,

Bányai Michael
Stuttgart


> >
> Stephen, you have a point. The full technical arguments for this being a
> loan word have not been presented in this thread. But they have been
> studied by many competent scholars for at least 100 years (as quoted in
> BDB), and it certainly seems to be the scholarly consensus, as repeated
> in Kohler and Baumgartner, that this particular word is a loan word into
> Hebrew from Akkadian. In a case like this, if you wish to challenge the
> accepted results, it is not enough to say "not proven", serious
> arguments are required.





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