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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Herman Meester <crazymulgogi AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 'appeden - "Persian Loan Word"
  • Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:56:05 +0000

On 03/02/2006 21:34, Herman Meester wrote:
Dear Robert,

I'm not sure if I understand your question. The text of Daniel, both
in the Hebrew and Aramaic parts, has plenty of loan words. A Persian
loan word, in my view, has nothing to do -as far as prophecy is
concerned- with the Persian empire.
If there is only one available etymology for *'appeden (a word that is
only attested in constructs), then that's that. The problem is that
we'd never know if the fact that it's a loanword meant anything to the
writer of the text at all, if the writer knew/realised that in the
first place.
I guess the writer thought this word expressed the idea (s)he had in
the best manner possible.

Indeed. When we use words like "paradise" and "orange" in English, both Persian loan words, we don't have in mind the Persian Empire or the Islamic Republic of Iran. They are just English words.

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Peter Kirk
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