Names of precious stones in Biblical, Post-Biblical, Medieval and Modern Hebrew

Solaf Al Taweel

doi:10.28995/2686-7249-2021-3-115-124

Names of precious stones in Biblical, Post-Biblical, Medieval and Modern Hebrew

Solaf Al Taweel

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-3-115-124

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Abstract

The article examines the Hebrew names of precious stones that are mentioned in the Bible in the books of Exodus (28:17-20 and 39:10-13), Ezekiel (27:16; 18:13), partly in Job (28:2-19) and in other passages of the Bible. Those names are characterized by the fact that they do not have an exact meaning in the biblical language and today they differ from the original language and do not mean the same realities as in the Biblical era. The purpose of the article is to explore the names of precious stones in Biblical, postBiblical, medieval, and modern Hebrew. The study of precious stones in different epochs of the development of the Hebrew language is a significant issue for Semitic philology, since many of them still do not have a clear gemological identification. That study was carried out on the material of text corpora in Hebrew of different epochs of the language development in the contextual, semantic, philological (word origin) and comparative (comparisons between translations of different epochs) aspects. The study used descriptive and comparative-historical methods.

Keywords

precious stones, Old Testament, Bible commentaries, Talmud and Midrash, medieval literature, modern Hebrew,

About the Author

Solaf Al Taweel

Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation

postgraduate student

bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125993

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For citation: Al Taweel S. Names of precious stones in Biblical, Post-Biblical, Medieval and Modern Hebrew. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;(3):115-124. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-3-115-124

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