Biblical Hebrew Forum

[LM Barre <l_barre AT yahoo.com>]

As I stated, there are three main socio-religious trajectories that may be 
used to synthesize ancient Israel and so its literary traditions.  The oldest 
is the El trajectories, reaching back to Mesopotamia in the third century.  
El migrated to Aram, Phonecia and Israel in the second century.  Jacob was a 
"perishing tribe" through starvation and migrated to Jacob-el and became the 
10 tribes of Israel.
 
The Yahwists, on the other hand, came from the area of Midian in Northwest 
Arabia.  Yahweh is an Arabian god.  He was a god of war--"Yahweh is a 
warrior, that's what his name means!" (Ex 15:3).  These were the Shasu.
 
Amunmoses came to the throne in Egypt. He was a Yahwist who made worshipped 
Khepera.  Because he resisted Hebrew oppression, he left with the Hebrews and 
went into the desert.  E preserves the itinerary.  Many legends sprung up 
about his journey through the Sinai wilderness, like Taberah.
 
The Yahwists mounted an offensive and took southern Palestine.  Yahweh became 
the god of Judah.
 
It was not until the opporession of Hazor did Yahwism come to the Northern 
tribes of Israel under the Yahwist cheiftain, Deborah.  As her song tells us, 
many tribes were too afraid to battle Hazor and Sisera.  This is why her song 
shames them.  But she suceeded in uniting Israel on Yahwism for the first 
time.  In my view, her contribution makes here better than King Saul.
 
I have noting but disgust and contempt for David.  See the "Apology of 
David."  The eternal dynastry of David is nothing but pure propaganda.  In 
the "Last Words of David," he gives order to purify his kingdom.  Solomon and 
Rehoboam were also oppressive, evil kings.
 
I have many detail in my book,  History and Tradition in Early Israel.  It is 
available from wheatmark.com or from your local bookstore or online.
 
So the three trajectories are Elsim, Yahwism and Elohimism (Mushite):
 
El           Yahweh    Elohim
Jacob      Abram      Moses
Israel       Judah      Levites
E            J              P
 
LM Barré
the unknown god
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] is ishot ever the feminine plural of ish?
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:10:30PM -0600, Harold Holmyard wrote:
>Ted,
>> Exodus 20:17
>> LA XHMD AWX ROc
>>
>> Deuteronomy 5:21
>> VLA XHMD AWX ROc
>>
>> AWX here is the transliteration of aleph, shin, tav.  It is generally
>> translated as feminine singular in todays Bibles.  How is this possible?
>> Is a feminine plural rendering also possible?  Is there some paper I can
>> read that covers this issue?
>>
>
>I don't see this sequence of letters in Exodus 20:17. It is:
>
>LA TXMD BYT ROK.
>
>But you are also using abnormal transliteration. The symbol for aleph is
>). The symbol for tav is T.

In the past, I read that there was no standard transliteration.  Is
there a document you can point me to so I can communicate properly on
this list?

In the post above I used the neo-paleo transliteration, where W and X
look like paleo hebrew shin and tav and C replaces kaf. Z is tsade, J is
zayin.

If you don't find ishot in Exodus 20:17 in your sword module, it will be
in the next verse, Exodus 20:18.  I pulled that text from the HebModern
sword module.

Ted

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