Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

James:
I just decided not to answer one of your postings in another thread that you
started because your answer indicates ignorance of Hebrew language and
poetry.

As a group, we have had other discussions where the reuse of names for new
places and people was an issue, and this is no different. Just because the
post-flood land of Cush was named after one of Ham’s sons does not rule out
that this was a reuse of a pre-flood name for a new place. The same with
Assyria.

This whole argument is a non-starter.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> No it isn't a non-starter.
>
> The land of Cush was named after Cush the son of Ham (he hadn't been born
> yet)
>
> Assyria was named after Asshur the son of Shem (he hadn't been born yet
> either)
>
> Please, stop sidestepping the issues and face them head on if you wish your
> theory to be taken seriously at any level.
>
> James Christian
>
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