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THREAD: Below are a bunch of what look (to me) to be #Egyptian personal names in the #Hebrew Bible.
I’d be grateful for comments from #Semitists and, particularly, for possible translations from #Egyptologists .
I’d be grateful for comments from #Semitists and, particularly, for possible translations from #Egyptologists .
I’ll start with a couple of obvious candidates (mentioned by Hoffmeier at least and no doubt others):
Judah’s genealogy mentions a guy named ‘Sheshan’ (1 Chr. 2),
who’s part of an ancestral chain which seeks to traverse Israel’s years in Egypt (though ultimately goes nowhere).
Judah’s genealogy mentions a guy named ‘Sheshan’ (1 Chr. 2),
who’s part of an ancestral chain which seeks to traverse Israel’s years in Egypt (though ultimately goes nowhere).
The name of his slave (‘Jarha’) looks like it’s composed of the Egyptian elements:
⟨wr⟩ = ‘great’, and
⟨ḫʕ⟩ = ‘the one who appears’, an epithet of ‘Re’ (from ⟨ḫʕi⟩ = ‘to appear’).
By way of illustration, here’s a name of the form ⟨Wr-DN⟩:
⟨wr⟩ = ‘great’, and
⟨ḫʕ⟩ = ‘the one who appears’, an epithet of ‘Re’ (from ⟨ḫʕi⟩ = ‘to appear’).
By way of illustration, here’s a name of the form ⟨Wr-DN⟩:
