Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Banyai AT t-online.de (Michael Banyai)]

Dear Yigal,

I must add a short follow-up to my previous posting.

Usoos with his brother Samemrumos as adorated in Tyre are, at least the first 
of them, eponymous heroes of Tyre. Usoos name bearing resemblances to (akkad. 
and Neo-Assyrian) Ushu, that is mainland Tyre. The native name may have been 
Usu/Uzu.

A second Uz is reported by the bible as a part of Edom (Job, Lamentations, I 
Moses 36:28).

It is therefore understandable when a biblical redactor should have pasted 
together the two Uzes (Uzzis), applying the Phoenician myth to Edom and 
falsely reconstructing an amusing family story regarding Jacob.

Best regards,

Bányai Micahel
Stuttgart