Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

OK, I got the Hebrew right now by switching to unicode text encoding.
Isaac Fried
On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:38 AM, Isaac Fried wrote:

> I can’t read your Hebrew, but I get the gist of what you are saying.
> I agree that ENOSH as used in the latter books means ‘man’, in the
> same way that I agree that SHET means ‘buttocks’. Biblical names
> are not what they seem to be, and this appears to me to be the reason
> the Bible spends so much time trying to explain their etymology,
> starting with ADAM and EVE.
> The Rambam (as well as Rashi) see clearly the challenge of connecting
> the facts of SHET calling his son ENOSH, and men starting to call
> (what or why?) by (in?) the name of God.
> BDB is good as translator, but I find his etymologies whimsical.
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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