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POSSIBLE CORRECT MEANING
[edit]Consider the name Yisraeli. It might mean the father of the biblical Israelites, ie Jacob, thus singular when used in this manner but with a plural verb. Eg, Yisraeli is our patriarchal father. But identifying their ethnicity will be plural. Eg, We are Yisraeli. Another way is 'Yisraeli(singular) is for Yisraeli(plural).' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pat254 (talk • contribs) 02:32, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Fantasy
[edit]Sorry to be so blunt, but The significance is it is the oldest record containing the Torah by over 1000 years, dating to around 2000 B.C. is sheer fantasy. tgeorgescu (talk) 08:04, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- Lead is a more reasonable length now too. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:06, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, my reasoning is: in 2000 BC the Israelites did not exist, the Hebrew language (or anything like it) did not exist, the Hebrew alphabet (or anything like it) did not exist. So Torah manuscripts could not exist either, in any meaningful sense. tgeorgescu (talk) 20:40, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- Plus it contradicts all scholarship. — kwami (talk) 00:23, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, my reasoning is: in 2000 BC the Israelites did not exist, the Hebrew language (or anything like it) did not exist, the Hebrew alphabet (or anything like it) did not exist. So Torah manuscripts could not exist either, in any meaningful sense. tgeorgescu (talk) 20:40, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- Non credo proprio! 2A02:B023:12:E6E7:6AF7:8C03:B312:8C0B (talk) 21:10, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
The file from the Irish church?
[edit]Sheila1988. The file you recently added has a question mark on the very title of the file. As much as I look at it, and try to expand it to see the details, I can't see the Hebrew letters there that would make up the word "Elohim" (אלהים) in it. Maybe the caption should be changed to say something like "that some argue (who?) bears the Hebrew inscription "Elohim."? Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 16:08, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
- That's a photo I myself took, I put the question mark in. It's probable that the carver had little knowledge of Hebrew (I've seen similar bad Hebrew carving elsewhere in Dublin) and you can just about make out א ל ה י מ Sheila1988 (talk) 19:17, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you Sheila1988. If so, I believe that a note should be added to the caption of the picture, explaining what you explain above. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 20:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- P.S.- By the way, the correct Hebrew spelling of the word is אלהים. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 20:08, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- Yes but I don't think the carver knew such intricacies as the terminal mem Sheila1988 (talk) 20:10, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- So what model from real life do you think the carver may have used, when he tried to carve the work אלהים? He just carved it out of his own mind/memory? There is no text written in Hebrew that would spell the work as you spell it. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 20:29, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
- Yes but I don't think the carver knew such intricacies as the terminal mem Sheila1988 (talk) 20:10, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
I mean like this -- . I can't think what other word could be intended, anyway. Sheila1988 (talk) 18:11, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
- I am sorry, but try as I may (and I have been trying the best I can), I cannot see the word carved there. To me it just looks more like a random carving. But in any case, you would need some other reliable source that says that the word is carved there. According to Wikipedia guidelines just you saying that the word is indeed carved there would look to me like WP:OR. I won't remove it, but someone else might. Thanks for your efforts. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 21:29, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Garbled citation
[edit]I wanted to correct the error message on the citation
- Day, John (2003). Reviewed work: Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, John Day. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series. Vol. 265. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. p. 23. doi:10.2307/3217888. ISBN 978-1-850-75986-7. JSTOR 3217888. S2CID 161791734.
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I don't have a copy of either the book or volume 265 issue 1 of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. I'm guessing the the book has a reprint of a paper from that issue. Can someone with access suggest what needs to be done? Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 12:48, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
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