Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

I think you are probably correct - at least in Gen. 38, Qedeshah and Zonah
seem to be synonymous and interchangble, and the whole story has no cultic
context.

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Medina, Vincent" <VMedina AT cbcag.edu>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:10 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Another Question About Qadeshah


> I know that this question has been addressed thoroughly on this list for
> the past few days, and I don't want to drag it out, but another question
> occurs to me and I thought it might be profitable to explore it.
>
> Is it possible that, over time, the term qadeshah became a technical
> term for prostitute and, at least in some usages, lost its cultic
> overtones? This is apparently what happened with the word KN(NY
> "Canaanite," which in some contexts is simply a synonym for "trader" or
> "merchant"-See Prov. 31:24; Zech. 14:21.
>
> I don't know if this theory has any legs, but perhaps it's worth
> considering.
>
> Regards
>
> Vince
>
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