The Aramaic Papyri from Egypt: Notes on Obscure Passages

G. R. Driver

doi:10.1017/S0035869X00111177

The Aramaic Papyri from Egypt: Notes on Obscure Passages

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011

G. R. Driver

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THE following notes, which are the result of a fresh study of the Aramaic documents from Egypt in Cowley's admirable edition, are here published in the hope that they may do something towards resolving some of the difficulties Which still await a solution in these important texts.

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Information: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 64 , Issue 1 , January 1932 , pp. 77 - 90

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^{page 77 note 1} E.g. Ebeling, , KAJI. 119, 5Google Scholar.

^{page 77 note 2} 1 Kings, xvi, 24.

^{page 77 note 3} Levy, , Neuh. u. Chald. Wtb., iii, 686Google Scholar.

^{page 77 note 4} Lane, , Arab.-Engl. Did., I, v, 2112Google Scholar.

^{page 78 note 1} Cowley's objection would be equally valid if meant “silversmith”; but in this case a noun of the form kassāph would be rather expected.

^{page 78 note 2} Gen. xiv, 23.

^{page 78 note 3} Schorr, , U. Ab. Z.-Pr., 13, 13 (n.)Google Scholar.

^{page 78 note 4} E.g. Ebeling, , BBK. i, 18, 2Google Scholar.

^{page 78 note 5} Tallquist, , Neub. Namenb., 181Google Scholar.

^{page 78 note 6} Buhl., Cp.Hebr. u. Aram. Hwb.¹⁷, 368Google Scholar; Brockelmann, , Lex. Syr.², 352Google Scholar.

^{page 78 note 7} Jensen, Cp. in Schrader's, KB., VI, i, 456Google Scholar; cf. Clay, , BEUP., xiv, 157, 24, 40, when naḫlaptum qaṭantum means a “thin robe”Google Scholar.

^{page 79 note 1} 1 Sam. xix, 13, 16.

^{page 79 note 2} 2 Kings, viii, 15.

^{page 79 note 3} The roots and and their derivatives in the various languages denote net-work, e.g. lace and hair-nets, and so on.

^{page 79 note 4} Jud. iv, 18.

^{page 79 note 5} Freytag, , Lex. Arab.-Lat., ii, 353Google Scholar.

^{page 79 note 6} Streck, in ZA., xviii, 171–2Google Scholar.

^{page 79 note 7} Muss-Arnolt, , Ass. Dict., 1073Google Scholar.

^{page 80 note 1} l Kings, v, 28; Job, x, 17.

^{page 80 note 2} Cp. Gen. i, 14, where is an instance of the same construction which classical scholars call the schema Pindaricum.

^{page 80 note 3} In Bab. Rechtsurk. 54–5.

^{page 80 note 4} No. 8, 1. 13.

^{page 80 note 5} Sachau, Cp., Aram. Pap. u. Ostr., 79, 1 B (Aussen)Google Scholar.

^{page 81 note 1} Muaa-Arnolt, op. cit., 874–5.

^{page 81 note 2} The Acc. ṣarāpu “to dye” is common enough, but this sense hardly occurs in the other Sem. languages except in the place-name “dyeing town” (Driver, G. R. in JTS., xxv, 299–300Google Scholar).

^{page 81 note 3} Muss-Arnolt, op. cit., 895.

^{page 81 note 4} Schorr, op. cit., 107, 1 (n.).

^{page 81 note 5} Pliny, , Hist. Nat., xxxvii, 12 (74), 194–5Google Scholar.

^{page 81 note 6} Ibid., 10 (54), 142.

^{page 81 note 7} Ibid., 5 (20), 79.

^{page 82 note 1} Ibid., 12 (75), 197.

^{page 82 note 2} Nöggerath, Cp. in the Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie usw. 1847, 473–86 (for ancient methods)Google Scholar, and Bauer-Spencer, , Precious Stones, 87–8 and 522–4 (for modern methods)Google Scholar.

^{page 82 note 3} l Kings, v, 11; 1 Chron. ii, 6.

^{page 82 note 4} Chiera, , Harvard, i, 71, 35–6Google Scholar (one of the tablets from Arrapḫa, where z is normally substituted for ṣ).

^{page 83 note 1} Streck, in Babyl. ii, 169–70Google Scholar, who compares the Hebr. “gate” and then “measure” (which are wrongly referred to different roots in the dictionaries), whence the Aram. pa' “valued” is derived.