Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pharaoh Khepera'a in Jeremiah 44:30
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:48:39 -0700
Uri:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com> wrote:
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> In this verse the MT vocalization is H(.)oPHra(
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> One good English transliteration is Hophra.
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> One can look him up in K.A. Kitchen's indispensable On the Reliability of
> the Old Testament. Incidentally, in this book the author attacks sharply the
> minimalists negative position on biblical history.
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> Uri Hurwitz Wilmington VT
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> Thanks. With the help of those who answered me, I looked it up and found
that the Greeks called him Apries, a clue that the Hebrew pronunciation
could have been XaPeRi(e and looking at his history, things didn’t go very
well for him. (It has been so long since I read Tanakh in pointed Hebrew
that I didn’t think of looking at the points.)
Yet Kenneth Kitchen is not a literalist—looking at his writings, he does not
take the Biblical dates as written, so he may be termed a super-maximalist.