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Name: Ken Home: Edmonton, Canada My Blogger Profile Recent Posts Fatherhood: A New Chapter Celebrating 10 Years Online A New Perspective on Neh 11:25-36 Press Release on Edom Excavations Google Scholar Aleppo Codex Online Christopher Reeve Jacques Derrida Dies The Willard Preacher I'm Yoda Sunday, April 17, 2005   Bigvai, Bagavahya, and Bagoas 0 Comments posted by Ken @ 1:36:00 AM I have a question for those Hebrew scholars who might happen by my page, related to the Elephantine Papyri (Porten A20/A21; Cowley 30/31) and Ezra 2:2//Neh 7:7. Are בגוהי and בגוי forms of the same name? This is often assumed by many interpreters but I've never found a good explanation for why this is so. Cowley anglicizes בגוהי as Bigvai, though I'm thinking he is doing so with reference to בגוי. Porten transliterates בגוהי as Bagavahya while I've also frequently seen it written as Bagohi. The Septuagint transliterates בגוי as Bagoua/goie. The prefix בג appears to be a shortened form of the Persian word for god, בגתן or בגתא, so בגוהי could mean "his god", though only if it is read Bagohi. I have no idea what it would mean if it is read Bagavahya and I'm also not sure what בגוי would mean. I don't recall a וי suffix. Is only the י a suffix? But then I don't know the purpose of the ו. Anyways, any help or insight you could provide would be greatly appreciated... Labels: biblical studies | Permanent Link | Donate | Top NetworkedBlogs Blog: anduril.ca Topics:   Follow my blog

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