To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] XRM
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:51:43 +0300
> But instead of looking randomly through the Bible, why not instead look at
> how the word XRM is used
> immediately before and after the two specific Bible verses to which Yigal
> Levin called our attention at the beginning of this thread,
> which are the only two verses in the Bible that reference Baal-Hermon:
I have a related idea. Why not look at Joshua 11:16 which is parallel to
Judges 3:3 ?
There instead of "Baal-Hermon" we have "Baal-Gad in the valley of Lebanon
which is under mount Hermon".
So perhaps "Baal-Hermon" is the result of a lacuna in the text of Judges ?