Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Stephen Goranson <goranson AT duke.edu>]

I say the name appears in Qumran as a Hebrew self-designation. And I am not 
alone. See, for example, 
VanderKam, James C. "Identity and History of the Community." In The Dead Sea 
Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment, ed. Peter W. Flint and 
James C. VanderKam, 2:487-533. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
Stephen
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From: Yigal Levin [Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:07 AM
To: Stephen Goranson
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ?

To make that more specific, the "Essenes" are not mentioned by that name in
any Hebrew OR Aramaic text that we know of, Qumran included. The spelling
used in modern Hebrew is a back-reconstruction from the Greek.

Yigal Levin

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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ?

Uri, Can you (or anyone) give one example where "their name appears" so
spelled earlier than modern times?

Stephen
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Subject: [b-hebrew]  Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ?

  Well, this is disputed. Their name appears often with an Aleph from the
root Aleph Samkh Aleph, 'to heal', Aramaic.

   Uri Hurwitz




And Essenes (and Ossenes) from the Hebrew root 'asah, in the
self-designation 'osey hatorah, observers of torah, as known by Melanchthon
in 1532 and by others (as factores legis in Latin) before being confirmed in
Qumran pesharim:
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/Essenes_&_Others.pdf
especially page 539.

Stephen Goranson



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