Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>]

From: <JimStinehart AT aol.com>
> Professor Yigal Levin:
>
> You wrote:  “Who in the world said that HALOT was perfect? But as Isaac
> said, etymologies of names is often problematic. The names you list below 
> are
> obviously not Hebrew. If you are now going to tell us that in Hurrian they
> all make sense and that they are all pinpoint accurate in the fourteenth
> century BCE, please don’t bother. We believe you.”
>
> That is the greatest compliment I ever got in my entire life.
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I read it as a polite though ironic request not to defend that point of 
view...

Arnaud Fournet