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שיבולת
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In Judges 12, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. The text itself has to substitute a different Hebrew letter, the samekh, in order to convey the point of the story. The episode is preceded by the judge Jephthah’s sacrifice of his own daughter, as a result of a rash vow to God. These and other aspects of the text suggest that the shibboleth story points to an autoimmune disorder afflicting both text and social text, both patriarchal speech acts and their linguistic medium.
Title: שיבולת
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In Judges 12, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme.
The text itself has to substitute a different Hebrew letter, the samekh, in order to convey the point of the story.
The episode is preceded by the judge Jephthah’s sacrifice of his own daughter, as a result of a rash vow to God.
These and other aspects of the text suggest that the shibboleth story points to an autoimmune disorder afflicting both text and social text, both patriarchal speech acts and their linguistic medium.