Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Yitzhak:

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:04 AM, K Randolph wrote:
> > Yitzhak:
> > but publishing an image with your own commentary is fair use, i.e.
> allowed.
>
> No, it is not.  See for example the Use Agreement at
> http://www.inscriptifact.com/


For the list, the images are 1) for study purposes, 2) not part of a book or
feature article, and 3) for technical reasons you probably cannot publish
those images on b-hebrew mailing list, but you may send them privately to
others on the list. Fair use even by this license agreement, which is more
restrictive than Fair Use copywrite law.

>
> > I suspect you don’t have any Hebrew examples, only
> > those from cognate languages; those I have already rejected for reasons
> > already given. I have photographs of both the Gezar calendar and the
> Siloam
> > inscription, neither of which back up your claims. So which Hebrew
> > inscriptions are there that do support your claims?
>
> This is really interesting, because I consider the Gezer calendar to be in
> a
> possibly cognate language.  In any case, the following are signficant
> differences
> in orthography between the Bible and the above two mentioned inscriptions.
> See the response to James (probably over your limit) for other examples
> from
> Lachish 3:
>
> Siloam -
>
> אש - The word 'man' is always spelled איש in the Bible, well over a
> thousand times,
> and never with yodh.   The spelling אש is reserved in the Bible for 'fire'.
>

“Flame”, “spark”, synonyms of “fire” are used in the Bible for the metal
head of a tool or weapon, so here it refers to the head of a pickax, which
would be heard long before human voices. I already mentioned this.

>
> הית - The 3fs form appears in the Bible only in 2 Ki 9:37 without a
> final he.
>

Are you sure this is a Qal 3fs verb?

>
> חצבם - The word appears in the Bible four times,
>

According to Lisowski as a verb חצב appears 16 times, eight times as a noun,
“their excavating” חצבם is correct Biblical Hebrew.

>
> Gezer -
>

Don’t forget that this appears to be the work of a child, evidence for that
include the uneven letters and “my father” in the lower left corner.

>
> My reading is either one of verbal nouns (אסיף, עציד) or one of verbs
> (איספו, עצדו).
>

“My reading” i.e. yours, my reading is different.


> Again, you have the lack of yodh (as always in epigraphic inscriptions) in
> שערם.
>

Or does the mem belong to the line below? There it fits the curve of the
line of writing.


> But you also have lexical differences - the word ירח in the Gezer
> inscription
> appears practically the same amount of times as it appears in the entire
> Bible.
>

Irrelevant. That it appears in the Bible with the same meaning is
sufficient.


> You even have a whole new morphological category -
> dual (probably absolute) - with a final waw.
>

That is a prefix to the following verb.

>
> Yitzhak Sapir
>