what are the pagan names? father is high?
and female ruler? regards, fred burlingame On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Isaac Fried <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >> > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
