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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hurrian and the Masoretic Text
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:33:35 -0700

Jim:

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:06 PM, <JimStinehart AT aol.com> wrote:

> Karl:
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> 1. Thank you so much for your suggestion of XCCN TMR as possibly having
> the following meaning in Hebrew: “gravel place (with) date palm tree”, or
> somewhat less literally: “gravelly place with palms”. But that seems like
> a strange name to me.
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So? There are a lot of places with strange names.

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> (a) Are there any other west Semitic town names of that type? Noun + -N
> suffix plus a second noun. To the best of my knowledge, when you have a
> west Semitic geographical place name with an –N suffix, that –N suffix
> invariably appears at the end of the s-e-c-o-n-d word, not the first word.
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Even if it appears only once, you can’t á priori rule it out. The first noun
can have the form like MKMN, NX$TN, P(MN, C)NN, CPRN, QRBN, and many others
that end in a nun. This is not necessarily a suffix.

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> (b) Why would a small village south of the Dead Sea have “gravel” or
> “gravelly” in its name?
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Have you ever been in a desert?

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> (c) What does that have to do with Amorites? Genesis 14: 7 refers to
> Amorites being at XCCN TMR.
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Other than your presuppositions, what problem is there with that?

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> Jim Stinehart
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> Evanston, Illinois
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You are having your presuppositions dictate to the ancients what they may
report, rather than having them speak for themselves.

Karl W. Randolph.




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