Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Uri,

Above and beyond; I consider all Hebrew letters “interchangeable”, except
for the letter R. Thus, in my humble opinion the roots GBB, KBB, CBB, LBB,
NBB are essentially the same, being differentiated only by usage. Heaping
chaff is GBB, but the heaping of  potato-gratings (to make a LeVIVAH,
‘pancake’) is LBB, while the heaping of chopped meat is KBB. The root RBB
belongs to the different category of ‘to disperse, to scatter’.

I know all this is ‘unorthodox’, but leave the trodden path and you will see
the world in all its glory.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

 

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From: Uri Hurwitz [mailto:uhurwitz AT yahoo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:47 AM
To: Isaac Fried
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Refutation

 

  Dear Isaac,

 

  My function in forwarding the the post of the Egyptologist was only one of
a transmittor. "Kol haomer davar b'shem 'omro " ...etc.  ( "he who cites
correctly brings redemption to the world").

 

 As for your specific question re qbb/kbb = burn, one really has to check
with him; my guess is that this refers to Egyptian.

 

 By the way, here, as in previous posts, you seem to consider as
interchangable two or more different consonants, the emphatic Q and the K,
and further the G - contrary to available evidence in Semitic languages.
Yes, exceptions occur, but only to highlight the rules. I assume you refer
to pre-historical Semitics.

 

  Uri Hurwitz                                                

 

 

 



Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

Dear Uri,
The root KBB, or for that mater QBB, is a variant of the root GBB ‘to be
high’. Other relatives are KFF ‘to bend over’ and XFF ‘to cover’. I can
understand QBB ‘to curse’ in the metaphoric sense of mounting imprecations,
but where did the learned chair get QBB(or KBB)in the sense of 'to burn'?
>From HBHB ‘to flicker’ or from KOKAB star? I wonder.
Isaac Fried, Boston University

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From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Uri Hurwitz
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 11:54 AM
To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [b-hebrew] Refutation

Shortly after the sensational claim of the earleist proto- Canaanite
inscription ever discovered was made - see below - what appears as complete
refutation by an Egyptologist appeared :

In response to the announcement of the alleged discovery 
of 
Proto-Canaanite spells in the Pyramid Texts by Richard 
Steiner 
distributed via the EEF and Agade lists (a pdf-file in 
Ivrit is 
available at 
), 
I think it is imperative to be extremely cautious.

As far as I see, the author did not account for the most 
recent 
Egyptological treatment of the spells in questions (C. 
Leitz, Die 
Schlangensprüche in den Pyramidentexten. Or 65 (1996): 
381-427) and 
not all the lexemes pretended to appear in the spells can 
be 
assumed to have existed around 2500 BC within a single 
dialect 
(e.g. Hw "snake" is Old Aramaic and more recent; with a 
chronological gap of 1500 years). Most notably, the sound 
correspondences postulated by the author would in many 
instances 
not be possible in the Egyptian transcription systems of 
the 2nd 
millennium, and seem to be outright impossible for the 3rd 
millennium. These IMPOSSIBLE correspondances include:

- Eg. for Semitic /q/ (line 5, 8, 12 on p. 3f.) (the 
correct 
correspondance would lead to kbb "to burn" instead of qbb 
"conjure" 
etc.)
- for /Tet/ (line 7)
- for /Dalet/ (line 7) (possible from the 2nd mill. 
onward; 
around 2500 the Eg. Ayin-grapheme still represented the 
voiced 
dental)
- (t with diacritic stroke) for /t/ or /Tet/ (line 13, 
14, 18) 
( represents a palatalized /k/)
- for (line 18) (possible from ca. 2000 BC)
- for emphatic sibilants/interdentals (line 18) (never 
possible).

This makes the assumptions put forward by the author 
highly 
unlikely.

Best regards,
Thomas Schneider
-- 
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider
Chair in Egyptology
Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology
University of Wales Swansea
Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP Wales, United Kingdom

tel. ++44 1792 513538 (office)
++44 1792 202804 (home)
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The above post has been put up (temporarily) on the EEF 
Website:




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On 1/25/07, Yitzhak Sapir wrote: >..... "Proto-Canaanite-Spells in >
Hieroglyphics: An Initial Review of the Development of Hebrew in the > 3rd
Millenium BCE" ......< 




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