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[Philip <philipengmann AT yahoo.com>]

Shalom to you all.
 
I have started a PhD Thesis on OT (Old Testament) TC (Textual Criticim) 
entitled, "DIFFERENCES between the LXX & the MT".---OT Quotations in the NT 
Book of Hebrews
 
Which 10 key books/journals/authors would you say is an absolute must for the 
bibliography?
 
Many thanks,
 
Philip Engmann
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Dear Hebrew Group,
 
at the risk of me sounding a bit impractical, could there be just a very slim 
possibility that just maybe, the Hebrew psalms together with their original 
melodies/tunes, the way that for eg David sang them upon his stringed 
instruments, could perhaps possibly have survived until this day?
 
--so that we can truly say, "I will si-ing as Da-vid sang"?
 
Philip Engmann
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Professor Yigal Levin:
 
1.  I agree completely with virtually everything you say in your post.  
[The only exception is that, as noted near the end of this post, I reject any 
proposal that there may possibly have been two unattested Aijalons in 
southern hill country.] 
 
2.  Based on my prior posts, let’s assume now that there were two places on 
the southern edge of the Aijalon Valley [with such valley itself having no 
formal name in the ancient world] whose names were “Oak Tree City”.  That 
makes sense, as the southern edge of the Aijalon Valley had a magnificent row 
of oak trees that separated the Aijalon Valley from the Sorek Valley.  We 
know from the Amarna Letters that for the famous city of Aijalon in the 
southeast Aijalon Valley, the yod was pronounced as a consonant and a 
separate 
syllable, ai-ya-lu-na, based on Amarna Letter EA 273: 20.  But the yod may 
have been dropped [either routinely or at least on occasion, with an interior 
yod in these types of Biblical names often dropping out on occasion, as shown 
in my prior posts on this thread] in the name of the tiny town to the west 
on the southern edge of the Aijalon Valley, perhaps to distinguish it from 
the famous Aijalon.  So the two names in the southerly Aijalon Valley were 
)LN and )YLN, both meaning “Oak Tree City”, and being the two 
“Aijalons”.  
In the Amarna Letters, the entire Aijalon Valley is dominated by an Amorite 
princeling ruler whose historical name was Milk-Ilu, and whose Biblical 
nickname could appropriately be “Mamre”.
 
If the author wanted to say that Abraham sojourned by the two Aijalons that 
were dominated by Mamre, then we would expect masculine construct plural.  
Wouldn’t the expected form be exactly what we see in the received text?  
)LNY MMR).
 
I see )LNY MMR) as having both of the following two meanings:  “oak trees 
of Mamre”  a-n-d  “Aijalons of Mamre”.  In order for this appropriate 
double 
meaning to be generated, reflecting (i) )LWN [or )LN in defective spelling] 
as a common word meaning “oak tree”;  and (ii) )LN as the name of a tiny 
town on the southern edge of the Aijalon Valley meaning “Oak Tree City” 
[which, most appropriately, is the name of one of Jacob’s grandsons, per 
Genesis 
46: 14];  and (iii) )YLN, as the name meaning “Oak Tree City” of the 
famous Aijalon on the southeast corner of the Aijalon Valley, the expected 
masculine construct plural form is precisely what we see in the received 
text:  
)LNY.
 
I can easily handle all of the geographical and textual and logical and 
historical arguments for the Patriarchs sojourning in the eastern half of the 
Aijalon Valley.  [For example, the name XBRWN is not attested in Canaan prior 
to the late 8th century BCE, and at that time the XBRN seals seem to be 
referencing the Shephelah, as over 300 XBRN seals were found in the 
Shephelah, 
while only 7 XBRN seals were found at the mountainous place in southern hill 
country which, beginning only in post-exilic times per non-biblical 
sources, eventually came to be called the city of Hebron.]  The question I am 
raising on the b-hebrew list, rather, is the question of the relevant Hebrew 
grammar here.  Does or does not the preceding analysis make sense 
grammatically, 
where I see “Aijalons of”, as masculine construct plural, being )LNY?
 
Please note that for my proposed grammatical analysis to work, the form is  
p-l-u-r-a-l.  Thus there must be two places called “Aijalon” in close 
proximity to each other.  Per Joshua 19: 42-43, that’s the Aijalon Valley, 
a 
place that was dominated by “oak trees”.  Since oak trees were not 
prominent 
in southern hill country, it is highly unlikely that there were two places in 
southern hill country named “Aijalon”, with both the Bible and 
non-biblical sources totally missing both of them.  Rather, Joshua 19: 42-43 
testifies 
to there being two Aijalons in the Aijalon Valley, with both of them being 
located on the southern edge of the Aijalon Valley, where “oak trees” 
were 
extremely prominent.  [The fact that the less famous Aijalon at Joshua 19: 43 
is transliterated in English as “Elon”, with no yod, may reflect the 
historical actuality that the yod in that tiny town’s name was often, 
though not 
always, dropped.]  Moreover, the famous Aijalon on the east end of the 
Aijalon Valley is the only place on planet Earth that in the Bronze Age is 
explicitly stated to be near tent-dwellers who used writing:  “the Apiru 
wrote to 
Ayyaluna”.  Amarna Letter EA 273: 15-24.  Are those tent-dwellers who wrote 
to Aijalon the Biblical Patriarchs?  It’s an exciting possibility, but 
everything seems to be turning on a question of basic Hebrew grammar.  Can 
)LNY 
MMR) at Genesis 13: 18 legitimately be viewed as referencing the “Aijalons 
of 
Mamre”?  That’s the Hebrew grammar question I am raising on the b-hebrew 
list. 
 
Jim Stinehart
Evanston, Illinois