I note that il šd appears in Ugaritic. I note that Del Olmo Lete and Sanmartín put it under šd(1) = Heb. שדה under (3) Steppe/mountain. But I don't see much there to remind me of mountains though there is parallelism with mdbr, so I wonder if that's been borrowed wholesale from Hebrew lexicography. It's a dangerous feature, using Ugaritic parallels to support Hebrew when the putative Ugaritic meaning may have been deduced from Hebrew in the first place). Interestingly, šd (your 'demon', here 'generic name ("demon") or proper name of deity') appears in its own entry and includes at least one appearance of šd qdš which doesn't sound too demonic. Your idea sounds to be a goer! Do you have access to DDDB (the Brill Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible?) John Leake ---------------------------------- ان صاحب حياة هانئة لا يدونها انما يحياها He who has a comfortable life doesn't write about it - he lives it ----------------------------------
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