A Reappraisal of Three Philological Comparisons between Biblical Hebrew and the Hebrew of Ben Sira
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Research notes
OT/not checked/25/04/2021
Reader checked/TC/20/11/2025
Reference type
Editor(s)
Steven Fassberg
Year
2021
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira
Issue / Series Volume
134
Series Title
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
Abbreviated Series Name
STDJ
Publisher
Brill
Place of Publication
Leiden
Pages
37-51
Chapter
3
Work type
Language
Label
24/05/2021
Record reference
Orion Center Library has physical copy
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Hebrew bible
Book
Exodus
Chapter(s)
9
Verse(s)
17
Book
Psalm
Chapter(s)
68
Verse(s)
17
Book
Deuteronomy
Chapter(s)
12
Verse(s)
5
Abstract
Major dictionaries of Biblical Hebrew use the book of Ben Sira as supporting
evidence for their interpretations of the two verbs מסתולל (Exod 9:17) and תרצ־
דון (Ps 68:17), and of the form לשכנו (Deut 12:5). In this paper I shall reexamine
the evidence cited from Ben Sira, in order to determine whether or not it does
indeed support the interpretations offered for those biblical words.
Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Ben Sira, 40:28
Ben Sira, 14:22
Ben Sira, 14:25