Sibilants and šibbōlet (Judges 12:6)
The phonetic problem of the šibbōlet incident in Judges 12 has long defied easy solution. After a consideration of the historical sibilant in question, this article proposes that the evidence from the Ammonite seal of Baʿlîšaʿ, an Ammonite king of the sixth century B. C. E., provides access to a sol...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
1996
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1996, Volume: 301, Pages: 69-75 |
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| Summary: | The phonetic problem of the šibbōlet incident in Judges 12 has long defied easy solution. After a consideration of the historical sibilant in question, this article proposes that the evidence from the Ammonite seal of Baʿlîšaʿ, an Ammonite king of the sixth century B. C. E., provides access to a solution. The biblical writing of this Ammonite name with a samek instead of a šin provides a phonetic parallel to the writing of šibbōlet with a samek instead of a šin. The problem, in short, is resolved as the graphemic expression of a phonetic contrast between Cisjordanian and Transjordanian realizations of the phoneme š. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1357296 |