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- Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] GOSHEN was Micrayim vs Misr
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 10:46:42 -0400 (EDT)
Will Parsons: As to my assertion that the Late Bronze Age Egyptian city
of In analyzing the 119 geographical place names in Canaan on the mid-15th century BCE Thutmose III list, one notes that some version of -N, usually but not always in the form of -na, is the most common ending, appearing on 27 geographical place names. That means that in old west Semitic/Canaanite, some form of -N was a natural ending for a geographical place name. Moving now to Biblical Hebrew, many Biblical place names in Joshua end in -WN, where such ending does not seem to be a part of the root. For example, “Ekron” at Joshua 13: 3 is (QRWN, ending in -WN, and it’s usually thought that the root is (QR, with -WN being an ending. “Eglon” at Joshua 10: 3 is the same, where (GL is seen as the root of (GLWN, with -WN being an ending. By contrast, the Egyptians themselves did not use a west
Semitic -N or -na or -WN, etc. ending for the names of their own cities. So I see Biblical G$N as being a
Semiticized version of the Egyptian city name G$/Qis. The -N ending is an early, defective
spelling version of what often later appears as -WN endings on Biblical
geographical place names in Joshua.
Moreover, adding the west Semitic -N to this Egyptian city name could
have the implication of “place”, as opposed to focusing on the city itself, thus
meaning that the early Hebrews tended Pharaoh’s livestock near, but not in, the
Late Bronze Age Egyptian city of Jim Stinehart |
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Re: [b-hebrew] GOSHEN was Micrayim vs Misr,
Chavoux Luyt, 05/02/2013
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Re: [b-hebrew] GOSHEN was Micrayim vs Misr,
JimStinehart, 05/02/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] GOSHEN was Micrayim vs Misr, Will Parsons, 05/02/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] GOSHEN was Micrayim vs Misr, JimStinehart, 05/03/2013
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