A Body Refigured: The Meaning and History of Hebrew BDN
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2010
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A Body Refigured: The Meaning and History of Hebrew BDN
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Journal of the American Oriental Society
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130
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4
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541-549
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Two different corpora of ancient Hebrew display distinct usages of a noun spelled בדן . In Biblical Hebrew (= BH) it appears twice as a proper name, vocalized as בּדְָן (1 Sam. 12:11; 1 Chr. 7:17). By contrast, in Qumran Hebrew (= QH) it appears several times as a common noun, both in the War Scroll (1QM 5:6,9,14) and in various passages of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice. For lexicographers of both corpora, this word has eluded full explanation in terms of its origin and range of meaning, and it is left as a disturbing crux in the various dictionaries and lexical treatments. The purpose of the present discussion is to offer a solution that would fit all usages in their respective contexts, and will also take into account considerations drawn from the realm of comparative Semitics.
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