Two Instances of Language Contact in Isaiah 45:14. (23rd August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boyd, Samuel
• Is Part Of: Journal of Semitic studies. Volume 64:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 401
• Page End: 418
• Publication Date: 2019-08-23
• Subjects: Semitic philology -- Periodicals; Jews -- Periodicals; 299.2
• DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgz003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-4480

Abstract

Abstract: Scholars have identified two traces of loans originating from Aramaic and Akkadian in Isa. 45:14. In this article, I examine each of the proposed borrowings, offering further support for the first, but arguing for a different path from Aramaic into the Hebrew of Isa. 45:14 for the second. In doing so, I add precision to the loan phonology of the lexeme as it relates to the sibilants involved and I call into question comparative evidence cited in Ludwig K.hler and Walter Baumgartner's The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament .