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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ?
  • Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:05:30 -0700 (PDT)

  Stephen, According to the latest edition of Even Shoshan Heb.-Heb.
dictionary, the first Hebrew occurrence is in the Book of Yosippon, a
chronicle of Jewish history to the time Titus. Written between eighth and
tenth centuries CE.

  In the HB the root may be recognized in the name  ASA ( Aleph Samekh Aleph).

   Uri Hurwitz




Uri, Can you (or anyone) give one example where "their name appears" so
spelled earlier than modern times?

Stephen








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