Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
> In my book it is HA-ADAM.

In my books, too.
There are about 40 examples of אדן in places where
other texts have אדם in codex Kaufmann. It was not a simple
slip of the pen.

The point is that there was a stage of the language called
Mishnaic that your worldview doesn't seem to have much
room for.
Abba Bendavid's leshon miqra ulshon Haxamim
2vol 1967, is a good place to start.

Randall Buth

Copyist errors are common in the latter Hebrew
> books. The scribe had, possibly, still DAN in his mind when he moved ahead
> to write ADAN.
> These errors are a gold mine for those looking to "coin" new words out of
> the old wisdom, HAMROROT. A notorious example is GOFAN גופן 'font', which is
> evidently due to the miss-reading the R in in the greek word GRAPHEN גרפן as
> a Waw.
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> On May 19, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Randall Buth wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
>
> 1. Concerning Mishnaic Hebrew, I don't know what was there in the background
> and what was "developed".
> 2.  מי הוא זה ואי זה הוא אשר מלאו לבו to say adan for adam? Did he mean
> ADON?
>
> One text that sticks in my mind:
> Yoshua ben PeraHya : ...
> והוי דן כל אדן לכף זכות
> Avot 1.6
> Codex Kaufmann
> This is how words like כאן developed out of כה, too.
> anyway, it's not the way things are in the Bible and its not the way
> we talk today. But undestandable.
>

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