The lampstand “mәnōrā” and its elements

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  • Анастасия Александровна Кириллова Института стран Азии и Африки Московского государственного университета имени М. В. Ломоносова

Abstract

This article deals with the analysis of the term mәnōrā, which was used in Ancient Hebrew as a name of a lampstand. Some elements of the lampstand in question, such as ner, and gābiaʕ, are studied as well. In this research the initial text data is analyzed, the Bible translations are considered thoroughly, and it also presents an attempt to trace the history of the word formation bases on the main principles of the comparative linguistics. This research may be of some value for scholars due to the fact that at the present moment there are only two articles which deal with the above terms, and both of them were written in the 1st half of the 20th century. One of these articles is ‘The Pottery Vessels in the Old Testament’ by A. M. Honeyman (1939), and the other one is ‘The Ceramic Vocabulary of the Old Testament’ by J. L. Kelso (1948). It was Honeyman who tried to make some conclusions on the issue of etymology; however, it must be noted that the range of languages which he took into consideration was limited. This research is an attempt to go into the history of these terms arising in the Ancient Hebrew as deeply as possible, and the data picked from different Semitic languages is studied as thoroughly as the author’s qualification allows. Perhaps, this research will contribute to more in-depth understanding of the Bible.

Keywords:

the Bible, the Ancient Hebrew, the Semitic languages, comparative linguistics

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2012-12-20

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Кириллова, А. А. (2012). The lampstand “mәnōrā” and its elements. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, (4), 95–103. Retrieved from https://aasjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/2447

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No. 4 (2012)

Section

Geocultural spaces and codes of the cultures of Asia and Africa

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