To: "'Kimmo Huovila'" <kimmo.huovila AT helsinki.fi>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc:
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] HBL in extrabiblical literature
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:05:14 -0500
If anyone else has answered this question privately, I would be interested
to know what resources were recommended. It seems that Accordance is still
way ahead of the competition for questions like this (I'd love to be wrong;
I'm not a Mac user).
For print resources, I would think Sheffield Dictionary of Classical Hebrew
would be one of the first places to look for non-biblical usage of HBL. It
covers three corpora besides the Bible: (1) Dead Sea Scrolls, (2)
Inscriptions up to 200BCE, and (3) Ben Sira. To these you want to add (4)
the Mishnah. HALOT also covers Ben Sira and DSS.
> Does anyone have resources to produce a list of occurrences
> of the root HBL
> (whether verbal or nominal) outside the Bible? I am mostly
> interested in
> Mishna and earlier literature.