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  • From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
  • To: <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>, "Will Parsons" <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pharaoh Khepera'a in Jeremiah 44:30
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:04:50 +0200


----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Parsons" <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>
To: <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pharaoh Khepera'a in Jeremiah 44:30


On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:43:26 +0300, Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il> wrote:

"Conventional wisdom" is that "Hophra" in Jer. 44:33 is the same as the king
that the Greek historians call Apries, 4th king of the 26th dynasty, who
ruled from 589 to 570 BCE. The form "Khepera" is not the name of a king, but
rather a title of the sun god Re, actually referring to the sacred dung
beetle. But if you or anyone else think that "Hophra" should be identified
with someone else, I'm sure that we would all be happy to hear your
evidence.
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Apparently the full name of that pharaoh is ḥ_ˁ_ˁ '_b r_ˁ w_3_ḥ '_b r_ˁ
'_b r_ˁ with the vowels is 'ab riˁa "heart of Ra"
Happy is Ra's heart, Stable is Ra's heart.
That Ra was pronounced with the i_a scheme is proved by Akkadian and Hurrian.
Tushratta wrote to Pharaoh Neb-maat-ra: ni-ib-mu-u-ri-a in cuneiform
That part fits the Greek name fairly well Απριης/Apries (with extra -s and a > η)
Hophra seems to be a bad rendition of ḥ_ˁ_ˁ '_b r_ˁ = ḥaˁˁ 'ab riˁa. Haˁaphriˁa is expected.
Ουαφρη/Ouaphre is a kind of rendition of w_3_ḥ '_b r_ˁ
It's funny to see that ḥ and b fused to generate φ

Arnaud Fournet
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