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  • From: R.Lehmann <lehmann AT uni-mainz.de>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: kamokha cf. Akk. kima
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:24:51 +0100

For kamokha, see the (important, in my humble opinion) study

Andreas Schüle, kamokha - der Nächste, der ist wie Du. Zur Philologie des Liebesgebots von Lev. 19, 18.34, in:
KUSATU vol 2, 2001, p. 97-129.

Best regards
Reinhard G. Lehmann


Do we have any Akkadian experts here?

In John Huehnergard's _A Grammar of Akkadian_, p. 187, he translates "awilam
$a kima $uati" as "'a man of equal rank (lit., 'a man who is/was like him')".

1. Is this translation of kima generally accepted by Akkadian scholars, and
is this use common in Akkadian?

2. If we apply this to the (in)famous W)HBT LR)K KMWK we'ahabta lere`ekha
kamokha, would the correct translation be "Love your fellow as your equal" or
"Love your fellow of equal rank"?

Hayyim




Dr. Reinhard G. Lehmann, AkOR
Forschungsstelle für Althebräische Sprache und Epigraphik
Fachbereich 02 Evangelische Theologie
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
D-55099 Mainz



  • [b-hebrew] Re: kamokha cf. Akk. kima, R . Lehmann, 01/25/2005

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