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  • From: Joe Baker <joebaker AT cygnus.uwa.edu.au>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: PS /g/
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:22:42 +0800

Hi Karl

Regarding
<quote>
the transliteration of Artaxerxes: the first Xi in the name corrosponds
   to the Hebrew and Aramaic X$ ... but the second one in Hebrew, such as
   all the times in Nehemiah and in Ezra 7:7, 11 were written with a samekh,
   while Ezra in his Aramaic portions, e.g. Ezra 4:4, 7:21 transliterated
   the /x/ with a sin/shin.
</quote>

Problem here is you are trying to compare a Greek form with Hebrew/Aramaic - whereas you should be trying to compare them with the original Persian (Old Iranian). As you say - the first X$ in Hebrew/Aramaic is a match for the first Persian sibilant. But the second Persian sibilant had no corresponding sound in Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic. So each substituted the nearest available sound in their own language. In Persian, the original sound was like a sibilant version of -thr- (as in three). (In Babilian the first sibilant was written "k$" and the second as "ts", in Egyptian the first was X$ the second "s$").

Regards
Joe Baker ===========\
Perth |
Western Australia ===/





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