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  • From: dwashbur AT nyx.net
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Leviathan
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:59:47 -0700



On 17 Jul 2006 at 3:36, JAMES CHRISTIAN READ wrote:

> Dave:
> What's your source for this definition? Rochelle has said several times
> that it's not a
> Hebrew word and nobody has challenged that, so I assume she's correct, plus
> it doesn't
> look like a Hebrew word. Do we know what language it is? Seems to me we'd
> need to know
> that in order to nail down such a specific definition.
> END QUOTE
>
> JCR: According to New International Dictionary of Old
> Testament Theology & Exegesis liwyathan comes from
> hebrew root 'lwh' meaning to accompany, to join.
>
> Article 4293 deals closer with liwyathan itself and
> claims it is cognate with Ugaritic 'ltn', a seven
> headed monster smitten by Baal (ANET 137-38).

I ask because Doug gave a very specific definition, and I'm curious where it
comes from.

> Anyway, whatever the root of liwyathan no reference to
> creation battles between it and Yah are depicted so
> liwyathan constitutes no evidence that Genesis creation
> account in a respin of Enuma Elish.

Agreed.


Dave Washburn
Encephaloriasis: That condition generated when the person you are dealing
with is so
incredibly stupid, you can actually feel your own brain cells drying up and
flaking off.



  • [b-hebrew] Leviathan, JAMES CHRISTIAN READ, 07/16/2006
    • Re: [b-hebrew] Leviathan, dwashbur, 07/16/2006

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