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Elistic
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English
Alternative forms
en elistic
Etymology
From en El -istic, relative adjective to en Elism.
Adjective
- en theology Semitistics
Containing reference to the Semitic god ʔil.
en theophoric
en 2018 1989 978-9-00436-952-8 Scholars Press Atlanta, Georgia Myth, Drama, and the Politics of David's Dance Harvard Semitic Monograph 46 30 w:Choon-Leong Seow https://www.google.com/books/edition/Myth_Drama_and_the_Politics_of_David_s_D/iWd9DwAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&dq=%22Elistic%22&pg=PA30 In due time she conceived and bore a son who was given the Elistic name he שְׁמוּאֵל - (1 Sam 1:20), […]
en 2001 Only One God? Monotheism in Ancient Israel Bob Becking; Meindert Dijkstra; Marjo Korpel; Karel Vriezen 94 Sheffield Academic Press London • New York 978-0-56723-212-0 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Only_One_God/eMneBAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&dq=%22elistic%22&pg=PA94 Some scholars adopting the Qenite hypothesis in its original or modified form, which supposes that the Qenites were the mediators of the Yahwistic cult to Israel, assume that Yhwh was a North Arabian storm god, a rival of the Canaanite Baal who gradually adopted Elistic qualities.
en 2021 South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity. “Out of Arabia” Imar Y. Koutchoukali 978-1-5275-6456-5 Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12: The quantity of the vowel <i> in the Sabaic word for God (ʾl): evidence from Arabic and Greek sources George Hatke; Ronald Ruzicka https://www.academia.edu/40271687/The_quantity_of_the_vowel_i_in_the_Sabaic_word_for_God_%CA%BEl_evidence_from_Arabic_and_Greek_sources_1 The Arabic tradition transmits a number of South Arabian elistic personal names of the type verb+<ʾīl>. […] In this paper, I look at the elistic names s2rḥʾl / s2rhbʾl and compare them with how they occur in non-Arabic sources. […] A similar elistic name is that of tawbīl, which corresponds to ṯwbʾl in the ESA corpora. […] If the hamza would have been retained when the South Arabian elistic names were borrowed into Arabic and lost at a later moment in time, one would expect […] In the North Arabian Arabic inscriptions written in Greek, elistic names in which the theophoric element occurs in post-vocalic position are consistently spelled with epsilon […] Conclusions […] That this vowel was originally long and was not the result of compensatory lengthening is further supported by the attestation of other South Arabian onomastics in Arabic, as well as by Greek transcriptions of South Arabian elistic names. https://web.archive.org/web/20260929074431/https://www.academia.edu/40271687/The_quantity_of_the_vowel_i_in_the_Sabaic_word_for_God_%CA%BEl_evidence_from_Arabic_and_Greek_sources_1 29 September 2026
See also
en theophory
Anagrams
en ceiilst elicits
en Semitic linguistics