Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Shoshanna:

Many of us don’t accept Rashi as a legitimate linguistic source, seeing as
his is based on another source we don’t consider legitimate, namely the
Masoretic points.

Yet you accept both.

So in this case it is best to agree to disagree, and be friends about it.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Shoshanna Walker
<rosewalk AT concentric.net>wrote:

> Rashi:
>
> "Samuel::   El after the name of God, and in reference to the incident, he
> was so called, for I asked him of the Lord."  (ie; His name is God)
>
> Shoshanna Walker
>