Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Garth Grenache <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>]

Hello Yitzhak!

Yitzhak wrote:
>Regarding long i: in the name Shali:m, see here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/message/374

Thanks!  The link shows an earlier spelling "In the Amarna texts it is 
regularly
written ú-ru-sa-lim (with or without the determinatives KUR URU and KI."

And a latter ~700BCE spelling ur-sa-li-im-mu.

The latter is argued to have a long i: being represented as -limmu instead of 
-li:mu.
That may be so.  Also, IF these are the most common signs for li and im, it 
may well represent le:m, as they are also used for le and em.
They may be writing ur-sa-le-em-mu to represent Hebrew -shale:m.

Garth Grenache.

                                          
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