Re: Same name (was Re: Brithenig-heads)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 23, 2000, 2:08 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
> About Izevel (Jesebel? Isabel? same thing?), it is almost certainly some
> language from north of Israel in the Levant, but what's funny is that in
> Hebrew it means _island of garbage_.
Could it have been an intentional distortion on the part of the
Bible-writers? After all, they did the same with Ba'al-zbl (Lord Ba'al,
I think?) turning it into Beelzebub (Lord of the Flies)
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