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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Carmel: The Town of David's Abigail
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:23:53 +0200

Dear Karl,

I really don't understand your position here; why, in the middle of a list that includes dozens of towns, do you insist that just "Carmel" is a region and not a town? Forget the name's supposed etymology - what in the list makes you think that it is any different from any other item on the list? Besides which, as I wrote, there IS an ancient site in the appropriate area which preserves the name to this day.

Yigal Levin


----- Original Message ----- From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Carmel: The Town of David's Abigail



Yigal:

Here I'm speaking merely as a linguist, not an archaeologist.

In Joshua 15:55, the structure of the text indicates that Maon was a town of
Carmel. That a later town was built and named Carmel is possible, but the
indications from within the text including several references besides Joshua
are that Carmel was a region, not a town, at least through the early kingdom
period.

At least, that's the way I understand the text.

Karl W. Randolph.
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