Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

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From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com

> In a message dated 1/26/2004 11:10:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> kwrandolph AT email.com writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
> 
> > In a message dated 1/25/2004 2:27:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> > kwrandolph AT email.com writes:
> > I noticed that these terms were used exclusively to refer to soldiers. 
> > What 
> > made me suspect that it may refer to classes of professional soldiers was 
> the 
> > realization that the PLTY is always written with a definite article 
> > prefix 
> in 
> > Tanakh, which would have had a pronunciation of “hapeleti”. This sounds 
> > awfully similar to a class of soldiers among the Greeks, who had imported 
> > a 
> lot of 
> > their culture along with their alphabet from Semitic sources.
> > 
> > The terms, as well as the weaponry, may have been Philistine, but in the 
> list 
> > of David’s top soldiers, almost all of them were native Israelis (2 
> > Samuel 
> > 23).
> > _________
> > 
> > Are you implying that the Greek "hoplite" derives from this?
> > 
> > gfsomsel
> 
> Any reason why not?
> ___________
> 
> I'm not saying there is or isn't a reason to consider this to be the case.  
> I 
> was simply asking if this was a fair conclusion based on your statements.
> 
> gfsomsel

There is too little information that I know of to say either way, but the 
parallels are certainly intregueing. All I say is that it is a possibility.

Karl W. Randolph.

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