Amen, amen, Ken
Andrew Fincke
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From: Ken Penner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:10 am Subject: RE: [Megillot] Re: osey hattora > To clarify, is the following the complete list of uses of the> _expression_? Does it only occur in these two manuscripts? The "..."
> implies more.
>
> I am sceptical because the phonological shift from a long O vowel
> to an epsilon in Greek is rather peculiar. It is not completely
> unattested (Vaticanus of 2Chr 29:14 has EDEIQWM for YDWTWM; 2Chr
> 31:13 has EZABAQ for YWZBD; 2Es 16:2 has ENW for )WNW ) but these
> are by far the exception; Long O's in Hebrew (as we find in Qal
> active participles) normally become Omega in Greek. This is enough
> to make me hesitate to express confidence that we now know the
> etymology of "Essene".
>
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