Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Father in heaven is high: RAM VE-NISA SHOKEN AD.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Nov 28, 2010, at 9:19 PM, fred burlingame wrote:

> 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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