To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Psalm 2:12 and Proverbs 31 ben/bar
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:15:30 -0500
With regard to "Aramaisms" in BH, I have found the following helpful.
When I was in grad school (Dropsie), Stephen Geller, our professor, suggested
that "An
'Aramaism' is merely a word common to both languages that happens to occur
more
frequently in Aramaic than in [Biblical] Hebrew." [The quotation marks are
meant only to
show attribution, not to imply a verbatim quote.]