Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Yes! But what is true for "Ugaritic" is also true for "Akkadian" and, of course, also for "Hurrian". 

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Nov 29, 2012, at 5:22 PM, JimStinehart AT aol.com wrote:

We see that Ugaritic scholars don’t know what slm means in Ugaritic.  They are guessing at a meaning of “staircase” based primarily on Genesis 28: 12!  And as is the penchant of scholars, they quickly move on to metathesis and half-heartedly assert a dubious Akkadian cognate on that questionable basis.  To the best of my knowledge, no mainstream scholar has guessed that slm might mean “ladder” in Ugaritic since 1965.