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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Kush
  • Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:35:57 +0000

On 21/03/2007 04:13, Yigal Levin wrote:
Yohanan,

The Bible does not say that "Mizraim" is what we call "Egypt" or that "Aram" is what we
call "Syria". ...

This is a strange statement. "Mizraim" is simply the Hebrew word for Egypt, used repeatedly for the land of the Nile and the Pharaohs which is what we call "Egypt". "Aram" is the Hebrew word transliterated in some English versions and translated "Syria" in others, which refers to a rather ill-defined territory roughly comparable to the modern state of Syria and of which Damascus was for some time the capital. So I don't know what you mean here. Because the Bible is not a dictionary it does not explicitly tell us which Hebrew words correspond to which English ones. But it provides enough geographical information to make these identifications completely certain.

As for Kush, the biblical information may not be quite so certain, but Ezekiel 29:10 seems to put the border of Kush at Aswan, strongly suggesting that at least here Kush refers to Nubia.

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Peter Kirk
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