From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: virgin: _BETHULAH_ and/or _(ALMAH_
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:56:02 -0600
Dear Dave,
You say:
>That said, the oft-repeated argument about `almah meaning "young
>woman [of marriageable age]" AS OPPOSED to "virgin" seems
>equally artificial to me; wouldn't a "young woman of marriageable
>age" be expected to be a virgin in that culture?
This is the position I took in the paper on I mentioned. But I added a
Ugaritic reference suggesting virgin as a meaning for the Ugaritic cognate
to Hebrew "almah."