What is Bel? It is related (in Hebrew everything is interrelated) to the בול עץ BUL EC, 'block of wood', (not that the BAAL is made of a block of wood) of Is. 44:19. As to BABEL, as I have said before, a name need not be a word, and its parsing may be open to more than one interpretation. It is possibly related to TEL ABIYB of Ez. 3:15. The partition BABEL=BAB-EL, with BAB (recall the BAB-AT AYIN of Zec. 2:12) rendered 'door', so as to make BAB-EL = 'god's door', is cute.
Isaac Fried, Boston University On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Philip Hardy wrote: > Is word Baal related to Babel or Bel? > Philip Hardy > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Isaac Fried >> Sent: 08/07/12 03:33 PM >> To: Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. >> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] baal >> >> >> In what sense is BAAL ( the Greek Appolo?) a "deity"? Is he "the >> master of the universe"? >> >> Isaac Fried, Boston University >> >> On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote: >> >> > as to "baal" the deity >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
