[lbo-talk] toponyms

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Thu Jun 12 09:10:50 PDT 2003


On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 10:48 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote:


> Here's my two bob's worth:
> <snip>


> bible (the Phoenician city byblos)

that's a new one, to me. to biblion is simply greek for "the book", and that comes from the word for the inner bark of the papyrus (according to my handy-dandy little liddell and scott). i haven't checked the OED on this, but i'll bet that's where they trace the derivation.

i've been following this thread, but trying not to duplicate what everyone else is saying. i had one good one occur to me a minute ago, but i lost it.

oh, well.

j



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list