Uri, What is the evidence that the name Asa is derived from the same root as the Aramaic ASA? (BTW, are you sure that in Aramaic the root is ASA and not ASY?)
Why would it be? The root ASA "health" is not attested in Hebrew from any period. Yigal Levin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Goranson Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [b-hebrew] Essenes etymology, was RE: Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ? The Book of Yosippon (mistakenly) replaced Josephus' Essenes with Hebrew (not Aramaic) Hasidim. For the start of Aramaic guesses, see Azariah dei Rossi, Me'or Enayin (Mantua, 1573-1575). Stephen Goranson www.duke.edu/~goranson ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Uri Hurwitz [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 5:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [b-hebrew] Etymology of Nazarene or Nazareth ? Stephen, According to the latest edition of Even Shoshan Heb.-Heb. dictionary, the first Hebrew occurrence is in the Book of Yosippon, a chronicle of Jewish history to the time Titus. Written between eighth and tenth centuries CE. In the HB the root may be recognized in the name ASA ( Aleph Samekh Aleph). Uri Hurwitz Uri, Can you (or anyone) give one example where "their name appears" so spelled earlier than modern times? Stephen _______________________________________________ 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
