Special Issue IOSOT 2013 - Books and Journals

46 S. Japhet / Vetus Testamentum IOSOT (2013) 36-76
עתליהו,‏ ירמיהו,‏ חלקיהו,‏ חזקיהו,‏ זכריהו,‏ אמציהו,‏ אחיהו,‏ names: changes in ten
‎56‎‏.אחזיהו שמעיהו,‏ צדקיהו,‏
Only once does the opposite occur.57
All these examples are taken from exact parallels. But the same tendency
is exhibited also in paraphrastic presentations.58 Moreover, not all the texts
of Kings have their parallel in Chr., for example: The name חזקיהו occurs in
Kings eight times as ‎59‎‏.חזקיה while in Chr. the only form (42 times) is חזקיהו (or
on.60 Nevertheless this is expressed in the above list only once; and so ‏.(יחזקיהו
In the other parts of Chr. the picture is not homogeneous, as both forms of
the names occur, even in one list. Regarding the names with long ending the
variety of material might be classified as follows:
a) One group includes such names which are found in their long form elsewhere
and exist also in Chr. To this group belong such names as ‏,אמציהו ‏,חזקיהו etc.
b) The second group includes those names which do occur in other biblical
texts but only in the short form. The only text where they are long is Chr. This
group might be divided into two: names which occur, in addition to Chr., only
in Ezr.-Neh., where all the names are short. To this category belong names such
as ‎61‎‏,זבדיהו,‏ הודויהו,‏ דליהו שכניהו,‏ שבניהו,‏ מתתיהו,‏ מעזיהו,‏ חשביהו and others
which are known from other books, but nevertheless only in short form. Here
‎62‎‏.שפטיהו,‏ פדיהו,‏ עדיהו,‏ מתניהו,‏ טוביהו,‏ אמריהו,‏ אביהו as: we can list names
§ 131a, p. 249). In any case, Sperber’s list is not exhaustive, and the added instances are marked
by an asterisk.
56) 2 Chr. xxii 11* (2 Ki. xi 2); 2 Chr. x 15 (1 Ki. xii 15); 2 Chr. xxiv 27*; xxv 17 (2 Ki. xii 21 (22); xiv 8);
2 Chr. xxix 1 (2 Ki. xviii 2); 2 Chr. xxix 1* (2 Ki. xviii 1); 2 Chr. xxxiv 15*, 18 (2 Ki. xxii 8, 10); 2 Chr. xxxvi
22 (Ezr. i 1); 2 Chr. xxii 10; 12*, 13* (2 Ki. xi 1, 13, 14); 2 Chr. xviii 10 (1 Ki. xxii 11); 2 Chr. xi 2 (1 Ki. xii 22).
57) 1 Chr. xi 30 (2 Sam. xxiii 30): ‏.בניה It is possible that the short form was already found in the
אחיה—‏‎36‎ Vs. ‏.יה Chr.’s source, since all the other names in this list, in Sam. and Chr. end with
is corrupt and the wāw בניהו פרעתוני Sam. The text in ‏.יושויה—‏‎46‎ עזיא—‏‎44‎ אוריה—‏‎41‎ צרויה—‏‎39‎
might have been the result of the misdivision of the words.
‏.אחזיהו is changed into אחזיה 58) For example: 2 Chr. xxii 7 // 2 Ki. ix 27 where the name
59) 2 Ki. xviii 1, 10, 13, 14 (twice), 15, 16 (twice).
is found four times in Kings in a short form (2 Ki. xii, 22; xiii 12; xiv 8; xv 1), but only אמציה 60)
two are represented in the list, and אמציהו is always long in Chr. עוזיהו is written in Kings twice as
names. but the fact is not represented at all and so with other ‏,עוזיהו and in Chr. always as עוזיה
61) Cf. among others: 1 Chr. xxiv 18—Ezr. ii 60; 1 Chr. iii 24—Ezr. ii 40; 1 Chr. xxvi 2—Ezr. viii 8;
1 Chr. xxv 3—Ezr. viii 19; 1 Chr. xxiv 19—Neh. x 8 (9); 1 Chr. xxv 3—Ezr. x 43; 1 Chr. xv 24—Neh. ix
4; 1 Chr. xxiv 11—Ezr. viii 3.
62) Cf. among others: 2 Chr. xiii 20—1 Sam. viii 2; 1 Chr. xxiv 23—Zeph. i 1; 2 Chr. xvii 8—Zech.
vi 10; 1 Chr. xxv 4—2 Ki. xxiv 17; 2 Chr. xxiii 1—2 Ki. xxii 1; 1 Chr. xxvii 20—2 Ki. xxiii 36; 1 Chr. xii
5—2 Sam. iii 4.