Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 15/09/2004 05:15, Karl Randolph wrote:

> Yigal:
>
> The opposite of war is not $LWM but SL+ (look at the book of Judges), ...

Karl, this one is a real puzzle. I thought you might mean $L+ "domineer, 
be master of", but this root (apart from $ELE+ "shield") is found only 
in very late books (the ones which almost everyone agrees are exilic or 
post-exilic), except for Gen 42:6 which BDB suggests was a late 
substitution. Nothing at all in Judges. And there are no roots SL+, &L+, 
or CL+.

So I wonder if this was in fact a typo for $P+, which is of course a key 
term in Judges, and does in some sense contrast with war, although a 
contrast with anarchy might be more accurate.

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