I say the name appears in Qumran as a Hebrew self-designation. And I am not alone. See, for example, VanderKam, James C. "Identity and History of the Community." In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment, ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam, 2:487-533. Leiden: Brill, 1999. Stephen ________________________________________ From: Yigal Levin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 8:07 AM To: Stephen Goranson Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ?
To make that more specific, the "Essenes" are not mentioned by that name in any Hebrew OR Aramaic text that we know of, Qumran included. The spelling used in modern Hebrew is a back-reconstruction from the Greek. Yigal Levin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Goranson Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ? Uri, Can you (or anyone) give one example where "their name appears" so spelled earlier than modern times? Stephen ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Uri Hurwitz [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ? Well, this is disputed. Their name appears often with an Aleph from the root Aleph Samkh Aleph, 'to heal', Aramaic. Uri Hurwitz And Essenes (and Ossenes) from the Hebrew root 'asah, in the self-designation 'osey hatorah, observers of torah, as known by Melanchthon in 1532 and by others (as factores legis in Latin) before being confirmed in Qumran pesharim: http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/Essenes_&_Others.pdf especially page 539. Stephen Goranson _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
