[Avodah] Parshas Behar (Bahar?)

[Zvi Lampel]

Sun, 6 May 2007 from: "Simon Montagu" <simon.montagu at gmail.com>
On 5/6/07, Mike Miller <avodah at mikeage.net> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the name of this week's Sedra is not changed from
>> Behar to Bahar, for the same reasons that Bemidbar becomes Bamidbar?<<
>

>Probably because it's not the name of a whole book, therefore used less
often, therefore under less pressure to become corrupted by amhaaratzim. I
have no answer to why Sh'mot doesn't become Shemot, though.<

Hypothesis: The names of the parshios Be'har, Sh'mos and B'midbar were always (and still are) pronounced in their possesive form. The spelling "Bamidbar" with an "a" is a recent American or English rendition, the origin of which should be researched. (Any texts available by which to check this ?)

Zvi Lampel
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