Biblical Hebrew Forum

[R.Lehmann <lehmann AT uni-mainz.de>]

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