Hello Jim, Yes, Jim, and eveyrone, that word is a typo. It should read "That's not how it works in scholarship."
Jim, you're misleading the readers here when you say there is no evidence that Ka&dim was used for the Chaldeans. (I do not suggest it was a "forerunner") . The word Ka&dim does not occur in a vacuum. We have plenty of evidence that Ka&dim was used for the 1st Millenium Babylonians -- as in 2 Kings 24-25. Also, the letter &in is (based on comparative knowledge) a lateral. It was in Proto-Semitic, and in Biblical Hebrew as well, the voiceless counterpart of the lamed, just like Dad was the emphatic counterpart. Also, I did not ask you for your view about K&DYM in Genesis. But you are still ignoring the evidence I put forth regarding consonant clusters in Hebrew and you've still provided no evidence that the Kassite name ever had an /sh/ sound. Just because we know very little of Kassite does not mean we can pick what we like form Hurrian, Hittite, and Indo-European languages in order to make it sound the way we like. It is also unlikely that the Hebrew author of Genesis chose to encode the Kassite name Karduniash in such a way that only you would recognize it. Yitzhak Sapir _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
