Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

what are the pagan names?

father is high?

and

female ruler?

regards,

fred burlingame

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> In my opinion you go out of a false premise. The updating of the text in
> later times was done to cover up the pagan origin and meaning of these
> names, not to account for a changing phonology. Then some improbable
> "etymology" (ABRAHAM and SARAH "laughed" and thus they called their son by
> the bizarre name of YICXAQ) was added, to thicken the fog.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:48 PM, jimstinehart AT aol.com wrote:
>
> 1.  You wrote:  “Updating of the text at a later time to reflect later
>> phonology.”
>>
>> That is to say, the names of two of Jacob’s sons were originally spelled
>> $M(N and ZBLN, but centuries later, a 1st millennium BCE editor put a vav 
>> in
>> those two names, to reflect how those two names had come to be pronounced.
>>
>> But on that theory of the case, why are 40% of the personal names in the
>> Bible that have a vav nun suffix in the Patriarchal narratives?
>>
>
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