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: Lee Daniel Quinn wrote: : > For many years, scholars have been translating Phoenician tablets. : > They have thousands of them -- most being what we would call : > bills of lading or shipping manifests. For a while they gave up : > because they were all about the same. : > An unnamed translator kept at it, and found that there were two : > parties that added, at the bottom of the regular lists, notes : > of a personal nature. These findings were very interesting. : > The reason for the above comment is that, in a note from one man : > to the other, he said, in essence: : > Did you hear about John's wife? She has become : > paralyzed. She has, what they say in this area, : > "turned into a pillar of salt." : : Lee, its time for you to start a new career, in Biblical exegesis. : I agree with you. Lot's wife became paralyzed. Here's why: : The Hebrew phrase for "became a pillar of salt" is: : N'TZiB MeLaX (where X = het) : TZiB is a euphemistic reversal of BoTZ = mire, mud : When you, or more likely your wagon, become mired in the mud, : you can't move. : A Hebrew word for paralysis is shin-bet-tzadi SHaBaTZ : = cramp, convulsion; apoplexy, i.e., a sudden, usu. marked, : loss of bodily function due to rupture or occlusion of : a blood vessel. The initial shin in this word functions : as a prefix meaning "that which is caused by or results from". : The MeLaX = salt is a euphemistic reversal of het-lamed-mem : XaLaM = to be healthy, be strong. That is, she became weak : and not healthy, probably as the result of a stroke or : thrombosis. : Israel Cohen : izzy_cohen@bmc.com

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