Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 3:45 |
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At 7:43 pm +0200 24/4/00, BP Jonsson wrote:
>At 14:50 23.4.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
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>It may be that the theta spelling was intended to mark a feminine -t ending
>that had become silent in Hebrew, but was still spoken in some kinds of
>Aramaic, or maybe the name was Elisabe gen. Elisabetos in Alxandrian
>Greek!
If it was, it's odd it doesn't come over that way in the Septuagint. There
the Hebrew Elisheva is simply indeclinable Elisabeth.
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