Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Vadym Zhuravlov wrote:
> The question is why the rendering of Wellhausen is not valid any more?
> HALOT says that "from the current linguistic and archaeological evidence
> it appears to be a cuirass-like sacral garment made of metal and common in
> Asia Minor." What exactly is this linguistic and archaeological
> evidence?

I would recommend you look this up in the Anchor Bible Dictionary.
Note that HALOT gives you a long list of references at #2.  You might
want to try to look these up too.  HALOT's conclusion that it is made
of metal may be based on the Biblical references only.  But again,
a first place to look would be the ABD.

Yitzhak Sapir