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  • From: Trevor Peterson <06peterson AT cua.edu>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ps. 104:12 - (P)YM
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:28:43 -0400

Yigal Levin wrote:

So (oph)aiym, "branches" is Aramaic. What does that say (if anything) about
the origin and date of Ps. 104?

Not much by itself. Particularly in poetic texts such words can arise either as loans (which can suggest something about the date) or as rare Hebrew words that happen to be more common in foreign cognates. You'd have to look at a larger sampling of possible indicators to say much about how this word affects the dating.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics




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