From: "Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Hebrew philology (somewhat off topic)
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:59:29 -0400
Okay, I'm going to betray my ignorance of Modern Hebrew here. Does anyone
know the Hebrew equivalent(s) of "philology," "philologist," etc.? It's
mainly just a curiosity. It struck me the other day that the Semitic
philologist (in English-speaking environments, anyway) goes through life
with a Greek title. Doesn't see quite right to me. Anyway, I don't have
any resources handy to look up such a thing, and about the best I could do
for a makeshift translation is:
I'm probably way off here. It seems like the Qal act. ptc. of )HB would
work for both one who loves and the adjectival sense of loving DBR. The
derived noun would work for love of DBR itself. I'm not even sure that I
like DBR as an equivalent of LOGOS, but given the sense of what the complete
term is supposed to mean, I think it works. Probably not even close to the
real term . . .
Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics
As in contemporary discos, so in contemporary descriptions of Canaanite
poetry, much is done under the cover of music that is amusing but not
entirely licit. --M. O'Connor, 1978
Hebrew philology (somewhat off topic),
Trevor & Julie Peterson, 08/04/2001