LINOKALAMHN

Jim West jwest at Highland.Net
Tue Oct 5 15:28:31 EDT 1999


At 02:42 PM 10/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>   I Clement 12:3 paraphrases the LXX account of Rahab, indicating that
>she hid the "spies" (should this be rendered "reconnaissance scouts?  or
>is that too much?  Gk: [TWN KATASKOPWN]

I think it is a fine rendering.

) under some LINOKALAMHN.  "Flax" 
>isn't a word I ever hear used (apart from this passage!).  Does anyone
>have any firm ideas about what the substance actually is? 

It is flax straw used as thatch.

> Could it be
>thatching straw? 

yup.  (oops- I forgot- Im not supposed to use that word.)  yes, it is indeed
thatching or roofing straw.  See Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" 736.

> Or is it some kind of unspun linen? 

No.  I mean I suppose it could be transformed into it if someone wished, but
the word seems to be used here for thatching straw. PCair.Zen.470 uses it in
just that sense I think.

best,

Jim

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