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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   Randall,

   Yes, it is silliness but perhaps not in the sense that
 you consider it. Is it right for a list member to give
 public tests to another list member?

  Especially when, as anyone with even a slight interest in Heb. epigraphy 
knows that the test is taken from Ahituv, with Ahiram the Phoenician etc. 
thrown in for spicing?

  And why would you participate in the game and not disclose the fact that 
the quote you discuss is Edomite from Horvat 'Uzah?

  Re'akha Hehagav,

  Uri Hurwitz                              Great Neck, NY


  hebrew] Biblical Hebrew orthographical practices in light of epigraphy
Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com 
Thu May 27 00:12:17 EDT 2010 

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James Christian wrote, commenting on Karl, both without data--
>> and secondly with
>> the recognition that “fire” and its synonyms were used in Biblical Hebrew
>> to
>> refer to the metal heads of tools, such as hammers, knives and pickaxes.
>
>
>Also a stark possibility. I don't have any objections to this.

James, didn't you notice that Karl did not produce one citation but merely
made an allegation? And you don't have any objections?!
You claim to be the 'data man' but applied your criticism to the wrong
party.
I know blades of cutting intruments and flames,
I know lahav and I know lehava, but I do not know of any tool/hammer/etc
called "esh".
And on the other hand I do know Ex 7.11 where a distant synonym of lahab,
lahaT/lehaTim, refers to hocus pocus.  But you shouldn't be cheering
hocus pocus.

and then this:
>> Maybe because I’m like the boy seeing the emperor parading down the
>> street naked, and not knowing better, just blurt out the truth.
>Great! I don't think Yitzhak will be able to level with this.

This is silly. Frankly, worse than silly. I'll let the moderators call it.
Yitzhaq is the one presenting the data. And correctly.

Randall Buth