The biblical shibboleth story in the light of late Egyptian perceptions of Semitic sibilants: reconciling divergent views.

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

1. INTRODUCTION

There are currently three treatments of the phonetics of the shibboleth incident of Judges 12:6 (1) deserving of serious consideration. Hendel (1996) and Faber (1992) present attractive arguments that do not depend on problematic assumptions of differences in the number of sibilant phonemes preserved in the two dialects in question, (2) as so many other explanations of the story have done, (3) including Rendsburg (1988a; 1988b; 1996: 511; 1997: 69f.), whose theory, though ultimately untenable, (4) nevertheless poses a question deserving of an answer (2.5 ...

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