Benjamin said…
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:52:00 AM
Somewhat off-topic:
Yair Zakovitch in his good “lo kakh katuv baTanakh” writes that Joshua was not buried in serah but at heres (archaic for ‘sun’) and amasses other evidence to demonstrate that there was a repressed mythology in Joshua giving him superpowers over the sun.
regarding: the ‘bin’ in ‘bin Nun’. I assume Joshua spoke another dialect of Hebrew that was vocalized more like Arabic. There is evidence within the Tanakh of other dialects:
זעק vs. צעק
shibbolet vs. sibbolet
יצחק vs. ישחק
etc.
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