On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> The paper quotes Pardee to the effect that "nabsh" is Aramaic. In
> fact, it is more
> accurate to say that standard Biblical Hebrew has "nefesh" and
> Zincirli Aramaic has
> "nabsh." But nb$ in this sense also occurs on one of the Arad ostraca.
Lest I be misunderstood, I consider this a mistake on the part of the
reporter, not Pardee, who probably tried to summarize what Pardee told
him.