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  • From: joel AT exc.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gezer Calendar
  • Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:15:00 -0400 (EDT)

>[Joel M. Hoffman wrote:]
>designation "calendar" should be considered tentative. Just by way of
>example, the translation distributed at Tel Gezer assumes that the
>various VAVs (frequently assumed to be otherwise unattested dual
>markers) are not suffixes at all but rather prefix VAVs meaning 'and'."
>
>If we go with your view of the VAVs, but still regard the Gezer
>Calendar as being some type of a calendar, we then have an
>interesting result. The Gezer

Just to be clear, it's not my view of the VAVs. I saw it on the
translation handed out at Tel Gezer. I haven't looked carefully
enough at the "calendar" to have a translation that I can defend.

-Joel


Joel M. Hoffman, PhD
http://www.lashon.net/JMH
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