From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
To: <JimStinehart AT aol.com>, <uzisilber AT gmail.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Asher again
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:21:30 +0200
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From: JimStinehart AT aol.com
To: fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr ; uzisilber AT gmail.com
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Asher again
Dr. Fournet:
I had written to Uzi: “[J]ust look at all the vintage Hurrian names in the
Patriarchal narratives: $N(R, )RYWK, BR(, BR%(, $M)BR, $N)B, XCCN TMR,
(PRWN, )YLWN, and B)RY. Those are vintage Late Bronze Age Hurrian names
that would have been incomprehensible to all later Biblical authors.”
***
I wonder if these kings are not indeed Kassite
BR( could be Buri-aa (he is ?) King
BR% could be BuriaS King of the land
Buri is the Kassite form of Hurrian ebri and it does have a voiced initial.
SM)BR could be Young King
Simbi is attested as meaning young