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  • From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Asher again
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:16:20 +0200

The princeling ruler of Jerusalem in the Amarna Letters is IR-Heba, a name
that honors the pagan Hurrian goddess Heba (alternatively spelled Khipa,
etc.).

Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois

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You must be aware that Heba(t) is a Hurrian goddess of Semitic origin:
Heba(t) is the adjusted pronunciation of Hawwat "Eve".

In addition I found it extremely strange that a Hurrian man would have a name
containing that goddess. It's more a feature of feminine names to be named
with Heba(t).

The next point is that usually the first morpheme of Hurrian theophoric names
is a verb. I understood from another post that IR is a noun.
This syntactical structure and the semantic feature of Heba(t) make this
name very unhurrian-sounding.

What kind of indications do we have on the "ethnicity" of that person?


Best

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