On Thursday 13 April 2006 08:10, Ken Penner wrote: > 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". [snip]
Agreed, especially since these Greek examples could easily have arisen by confusion between waw and yod. -- Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur Fame is fleeing, as good old Whatsisname used to say. _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
