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GEORGE ATHAS Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia) www.moore.edu.au From: "Zack ." <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:46:15 +0000 To: B-Hebrew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [b-hebrew] Addition of Heh to names The Bibles tells us that with the move to monotheism the names of Avram and Sarai were changed to Avraham and Sarah. I wonder whether other than the biblical explanation and story, were the heh-less names of Avram and Sarai typical in the region at large and has the addition of hehs to names been a convention seen elsewhere or having a significance other than that of the biblical context? Would it have a known semantic evolution, characteristic or significance of no religious conotation or explanation? Gad Canada _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
