As far as I understand, at least from a Jewish religious perspective, YMiN did not mean "right" but rather "dominant." In other words, the YMiN of a left dominant individual would be his left hand.
Comments? David Kolinsky Monterey, CA --- On Mon, 9/26/11, Ishinan <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ishinan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Names of Rachel's Second-Born Son To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:01 AM Jim, My advice to you is to explore the field of Semitic teknonymy in depth. It will help your research tremendously and avoid the pitfall of looking at Biblical Hebrew with modern eyes, as this can be very deceptive. Best Ishinan Ishibashi _______________________________________________ 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
