In my opinion you go out of a false premise. The updating of the text
in later times was done to cover up the pagan origin and meaning of
these names, not to account for a changing phonology. Then some
improbable "etymology" (ABRAHAM and SARAH "laughed" and thus they
called their son by the bizarre name of YICXAQ) was added, to thicken
the fog.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
1. You wrote: “Updating of the text at a later time to reflect
later phonology.”
That is to say, the names of two of Jacob’s sons were originally
spelled $M(N and ZBLN, but centuries later, a 1st millennium BCE
editor put a vav in those two names, to reflect how those two names
had come to be pronounced.
But on that theory of the case, why are 40% of the personal names
in the Bible that have a vav nun suffix in the Patriarchal narratives?
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