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Nir Cohen: 1. You
wrote: “in fact, i suspect the name
you quote is abdi-heba, not ir-heba. this is The name “IR-Heba” appears in the Amarna Letters 17
times. The made-up name “Abdi-Heba”
never appears a single time in the Amarna Letters. IR-Heba’s Amarna Letters contain Hurrian
common words and the quintessential Hurrian number 318. IR-Heba associates mostly with Hurrian
princelings: $uwardata, Endaruta
and Surata (per Amarna Letter EA 366).
IR-Heba’s Amarna Letters contain logograms. There is an attested Hurrian name that,
like the name “IR-Heba”, starts with the logogram IR, so we know that the use of
the logogram IR does not mandate that IR-Heba is a Canaanite, rather than being
a Hurrian princeling. A majority of
the princelings in But on this thread, I want to talk about early H-e-b-r-e-w words, not about the Hurrians. 2. You
wrote: “anyway, since i suspect you
are referring to the amarna letters, please Why are you and Prof. Yigal Levin talking about the thousands of substandard Akkadian words that IR-Heba’s scribe wrote? Who cares about that? This thread is focusing, rather, on the only 9 west Semitic words that IR-Heba’s scribe ever wrote. I’m asking if those 9 west Semitic words are indeed “Hebrew”. On this thread, I am talking about early H-e-b-r-e-w words. Jim Stinehart |
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