Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

To All:

These arguments about times and dates can go on forever because the surviving 
records are so fragmentary and assumptions are made that cannot be proven 
either way. To top it, there is the possibility of transmission errors to 
mess up even the surviving records. I never heard of Rohl before a few days 
ago, yet I noticed that there are problems with the standard accepted dates 
as well: for example, I think it is possible that the PLST among the Sea 
Peoples were Philistine mercenaries who did not want to live under Israeli 
control, so when the Sea Peoples were defeated, the PLST were allowed to 
return home. The surviving records can’t disporove that theory, nor prove 
them, so I see no purpose in arguing the case. So let’s get back to a 
linguistic question.

While perusing through Hosea, I noticed )$Y$ אשיש in 
3:1 seems to indicate a vine which in Isaiah 16:7 sounds like a climbing vine 
[ )$Y$Y QYR  אשישי קיר], as 
different from a standard GPN גפן sprawled out on the 
ground. From this the ancients made raisin cakes 
אשישה mentioned in 2 Samuel 6:19, Song of Songs 
2:5 and 1 Chronicles 16:3. The masculine use of the noun refers to the vine, 
while the feminine to the sweet cakes. Or is it that a different variety of 
grapes were grown for raisins, not wine, just as presently here in 
California, so this refers to that variety of grape vine? Any thoughts?

Karl W. Randolph.
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