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11/11/2026 – This post contains a Calude.ai response about the question in the title above. Prompt – What is the exact transliteration conventions in the latest SBL Handbook (2nd edition) for Yam Suf/Yam sup? Response – Under the second edition of The SBL Handbook of Style, the precise academic transliteration is yam sûp, not Yam […]
Continue ReadingThis post is a summary by Claude.ai of the paper by Moshier & Hoffmeier: “Which Way Out of Egypt? Physical Geography Related to the Exodus Itinerary“ (in Levy, Schneider & Propp, eds., Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective, 2015, ch. 8). A PDF copy is in the James Hoffmeier directory in DropBox. Scroll down to see […]
Continue ReadingClaude.ai provided the response below. The LXX translators in Exodus translated Yam Suf as Red Sea but in 1 Kings they translated the Hebrew as roughly “on the shore of the farthest sea,” not “Red Sea.” probably reflecting a geographical sense of the Gulf of Aqaba where Ezion-geber and Eloth were. See also the post […]
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