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  • From: Tory Thorpe <torythrp AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Son of man vs. Enosh
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:36:55 -0800 (PST)

I didn't know our אורים ותומים have been found. But BDB,
admittedly not as authoritative, does list the cognates in the Arabic,
Aramaic, Palmyrene, etc. These are all consistent with Enosh meaning men,
man, or mankind; and the Rambam in Hil. Avodas Kochavim 1:1-2 explains that
Enosh in Gen. 4:26 was so named due to the idolatry that became rampant among
**men** at this time.

Tory Thorpe


Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote: The interpretation of the name ENOSH as
‘man’ comes from two
sources: first, from the plural אנשים (ANASHIM) ‘men’ of
איש (ISH) ‘man’, and נשים (NASHIM), ‘women’ of אשה
(ISHA) ‘woman’, and second from the root אנש (ANASH) ‘to be
weak'. Thus, ENOSH of Isaiah 13:12 is not necessarily ENOSH of
Genesis 4:26, the same way that SHET of Genesis 4:26 is not the same
as SHET 'buttocks' of Isaiah 20:4. As far as BDB is concerned, it is
not our אורים ותומים.
Isaac Fried, Boston University




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