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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Philip Hardy <technologist1 AT gmx.us>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] baal
  • Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 20:45:36 -0400

What is Bel? It is related (in Hebrew everything is interrelated) to the בול עץ BUL EC, 'block of wood', (not that the BAAL is made of a block of wood) of Is. 44:19. As to BABEL, as I have said before, a name need not be a word, and its parsing may be open to more than one interpretation. It is possibly related to TEL ABIYB of Ez. 3:15. The partition BABEL=BAB-EL, with BAB (recall the BAB-AT AYIN of Zec. 2:12) rendered 'door', so as to make BAB-EL = 'god's door', is cute.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Philip Hardy wrote:

Is word Baal related to Babel or Bel?
Philip Hardy


----- Original Message -----
From: Isaac Fried
Sent: 08/07/12 03:33 PM
To: Nir cohen - Prof. Mat.
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] baal


In what sense is BAAL ( the Greek Appolo?) a "deity"? Is he "the
master of the universe"?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

> as to "baal" the deity

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