Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,1 (2019) 111-135
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Names in the Bible
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Names, Semitic
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Semitic languages, Northwest History
;
Onomastics
Abstract:
The personal names of the Pentateuch (the first 11 chapters excluded) have not very often been under systematic scientific investigations. The topic is interesting from the points of view of linguistics, onomastics, theology and ethnohistory. The anthroponyms of the Pentateuch are compared with personal names found from the 2nd millennium BCE (from Amorite, Ugaritic and Amarna Canaanite sources) and with anthroponyms from extrabiblical and biblical Hebrew sources, as well as with Phoenician sources of the first half of the 1st millennium. The conclusion is that the anthroponyms of the Pentateuch reflect the onomasticon of the second millennium, having slightly modified typological and lexical roots in the same Northwest Semitic entity as Amorite, Amarna Canaanite and Ugaritic personal names.
DOI:
10.1080/09018328.2019.1600259
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