The Biblical Hebrew “Store Cities” and an Amarna Gloss
The word מסכנות used in the phrase ערי מסכנות “store cities” is commonly considered a loanword from the Neo-Assyrian word maškattu, “account, deposit, storehouse.” The current loan hypothesis does not account for the difficulties of the Akkadian evidence and does not take into consideration a gloss...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2017
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Vetus Testamentum
Année: 2017, Volume: 67, Numéro: 4, Pages: 519-527 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Bibel. Altes Testament
/ Hébreu
/ Substantif
/ misknot
/ Amarna-Tafeln
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| RelBib Classification: | HB Ancien Testament TC Époque pré-chrétienne |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Biblical Hebrew
lexicography
Amarna letters
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | The word מסכנות used in the phrase ערי מסכנות “store cities” is commonly considered a loanword from the Neo-Assyrian word maškattu, “account, deposit, storehouse.” The current loan hypothesis does not account for the difficulties of the Akkadian evidence and does not take into consideration a gloss in Amarna letter no. 306. This gloss shows that the Canaanite scribes of the Late Bronze Age were familiar with the Akkadian plural form maškanātu and used it with the meaning “granaries, storage areas.” This technical term was borrowed into a Canaanite dialect and was subsequently transmitted to Biblical Hebrew as מסכנות. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contient: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341287 |