Re: How to write Tel Aviv Yafo?

From: Simon Montagu (smontagu@smontagu.org)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 05:09:03 CDT

  • Next message: Philippe Verdy: "RE: Devanagari composing help needed"

    Andreas Prilop wrote:
    > Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
    >> The first is normally either space or Maqaf. Most compounds
    >> which use Maqaf in the Bible are written today with space.
    >
    > Which book of the Bible mentions Tel Aviv?

    A place called Tel Aviv (without Maqaf) is mentioned in Ezekiel 3:15.
    The modern city is named after Nahum Sokolov's Hebrew translation of
    Herzl's 'Altneuland' (http://benyehuda.org/sokolov/tel_aviv.html), which
    took the name from that verse.

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Jun 07 2007 - 05:10:23 CDT