Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Uri,

Or in reference to the two narrow (CARIM) strips along the Nile.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Mar 21, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>     It is noteworthy that the biblical term for Egypt retains the  
> dual:
>     Mis(.)rayim, reflecting a time when Egypt was known as a country
>    combining  two parts, upper and lower.
>
>     Also interesting is that the Arabic term for the country,  
> identical to
>    the biblical, occurs in the the singular: Mis(.)r, or Mas(.)r.
>
>     Uri Hurwitz
>
>
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>
> 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.     
> --   Peter Kirk  E-mail:  peter at qaya.org  Blog:    http:// 
> www.qaya.org
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