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Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> Helge Moulding  <h...@slc.unisys.com> wrote:
>
> >Now wait a second. The article at 
> >http://www.cybermail.net/~codes/genesis.htm says that
> >
> >"2. Names and designations taken from the Pentateuch are spelled as 
> >in the original."
> >
> >I took that to mean that the names are from the Pentateuch. Not from
> >some later time. Does anyone have the actual list?
> 
> The article you mention above has a link to the list that was used.
> Basically, they selected people from a biographical dictionary.
> Further details of the selection process are described in the article.
> The dictionary they used lists Jewish personalities from the 9th to the
> 18th century, so they are all much later than the time the Torah was
> written.  In that light, the reference to "names and designations taken
> from the Pentateuch" doesn't make much sense.

One supposes that a person in the 9th to 18th centuries could have a name
like 'Joshua', which is also in Genesis, in which case one could make sure
the spelling was the same as in the Bible.  Makes sense to me.
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