Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uzi Silber <uzisilber AT gmail.com>]

pardes is of course related to paradise.




On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Joseph:
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Joseph Roberts <josephroberts3 AT gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I was reading a commentary on the Book of Daniel and how there are
> > instruments whose names are of Greek origin mentioned in a couple of the
> > verses. What I am wondering has anyone done a comprehensive survey of
> > foreign words adopted into Biblical Hebrew. What I am most interested in
> > finding if these words create an anachronism as far as when the book was
> > written and when the book claims to be written.
> > -Joseph Roberts
> >
> > First of all, those are words found in Aramaic, not Hebrew.
>
> After all the intervening millennia, is it even possible to track all the
> foreign loan words, and even which way the loaning went? Do we even know
> the
> extent of ancient cultural contacts that would lead to linguistic loaning?
> Even from the extent records, we find that Greeks were going throughout the
> eastern Mediterranean with their culture (including musical instruments)
> even before Daniel.
>
> A couple of words come to my mind: HPL+Y which I suspect came into Hebrew
> through Philistine, meaning “heavily armed soldier” and PRDS “garden (of
> pleasure)” from Persian (there is no reason to assume that 10th century
> Solomon couldn’t have known about the concept and imported it and its term
> to Hebrew).
>
> No, these words are not evidences of anachronism, rather signposts of early
> cultural contact.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
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