Zafenat-Paneach
Zafnath-Paaneah ( Hebrew צָפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ Ṣofnaṯ Paʿnêaḫ, Septuagint Ψονθομφανήχ Psonthom-phanêch ) is described in the Bible in the Old Testament ( Gen 41.45 EU ) as a name or honorary title given by Pharaoh Joseph . It is interpreted differently, u. a. when God said: may he live! and revealer of secrets . The exact meaning is controversial. The name is mentioned only once in the Bible .
The name is apparently supposed to be Egyptian , but the etymology is not undisputed. Hieronymus gives the presumed meaning servator mundi ( savior of the world ). The Targum Onkelos (1st century) gives the meaning of the name as the man to whom secrets are revealed , the Targum pseudo-Jonathan as the revealer of secrets , Josephus in the Jewish antiquities (II, 6,1, approx. 94 AD .) as the fathom of secrets .
The Egyptologist and Coptologist Georg Steindorff suggested the translation ḏd p3 nṯr iw.f c nḫ ( God speaks and he lives ). Names like these or Potiphar of the same story are only from the late period of the Ramessides occupied and be first in the string time (653-525 v. Chr.) Frequently. They suggest that this part of the Old Testament was written around the time of the Babylonian exile (597–539 BC) and that the legend was dated back to the imperial period of Egypt .
Web links
- Klaus Koenen: Zafenat-Paneach. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
- Zaphenat-Paneach at books.google.de, accessed on April 13, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of Egyptian Language, XXVII, 1889, 41f
- ↑ Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto: Small Lexicon of Egyptology. Wiesbaden 1999, p. 137.