Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwood.net>]

GFS: I'm sure you know that Benjamin BiN:YfMIN meant "Southern." 
They were "rednecks."  :-)  Just kidding, all you U.S. southerners.  

SB: Actually, rednecks aren't exclusively Southerners (in my generation
we still capitalize it), but any rural population whose necks are
sunburned from long days bending over the plow.

GFS:It does, however, refer to the south.  

SB: Does it? In light of their consistent characterization mightn't the
b'nei Yamin be banditti calling themselves something like 'Sons of the
Strongarm' - and denoting their elite as something like the Masonic
'handfast'?

Stoney Breyer
Writer
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