[Avodah] Yehoshua and Yehonasan

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:11:41AM -0600, Lisa Liel wrote:
: I was probably unclear, sorry...

As moderator, I want to draw attention to this very kavod-dik alternative
to "you don't understand" or the usual we see in discussion fora like
ours.

Thank you.

:                                 The Assyrians mention people in 
: Israel with names like those, such as Yau-Ahaz of Yaudi 
: (http://www.katapi.org.uk/BAndS/ChXII.htm), who even if he was king 
: of a northern Yaudi, was still located in the region of Israel.  The 
: Assyrians merely transcribed his name.  Granted, there were uses of 
: the name in the north (Mesopotamia) as well, such as Il-yau 
: (Eliyahu), but there's no record of Assyrians or Babylonians ever 
: worshipping a deity by that name.  Just us.

Understood. I don't know how that changes my point. It just "frums up"
Yirmiyahu's parents.

Perhaps -- and again, I'm just trying to see if your proof has flaws and
not asserting they exist -- the northern part of EY used the non-Hebrew
variant of sheim havayah in their names, but Nun and Shaul did not. (Or
their wives; naming in early Tanakh was more frequently by mother than
father.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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