https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum <p>HIPHIL Novum is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal for biblical linguistics.</p> en-US <p>Counting from volume 9 (2024), articles published in HIPHIL Novum are licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. The editorial board may accept other Creative Commons licenses for individual articles, if required by funding bodies e.g. the European Research Council. With the publication of volume 9, authors retain copyright to their articles and give Hiphil Novum the right to the first publication. The authors retain copyright to earlier versions of the articles, such as the submitted and the accepted manuscript. Authors and readers may use, reuse, and build upon the published work, use it for text or data mining or for any other lawful purpose, as long as appropriate attribution is maintained.</p> <p>Articles in volumes 1-8 are not licensed under Creative Commons. In these volumes, all rights are reserved to the authors of the articles respectively. This implies that readers can download, read, and link to the articles, but they cannot republish the articles. Authors may post the published version of their article to their personal website, institutional repository, or a repository required by their funding agency as a part of a green open access policy.</p> cch@dbi.edu (Christian Canu Højgaard) cch@dbi.edu (Christian Canu Højgaard) Sat, 19 Apr 2025 18:10:54 +0200 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/article/view/152021 <p>Censuses of the Israelites found in Numbers have been mulled over because of both their large values and the particulars of those values. Efforts to fit the large numbers of Israelites escaping Egypt into something historically plausible or suggest a lexical development focus on reinterpreting the standard counter for “thousands”, <em>elep</em> (אלף). The most recent attempts use mathematical models, but the results have not been rigorously tested. A statistical evaluation finds the efforts wanting, and the underlying numbers are most likely artificial. The origin of the census values is then proposed, indicating source relationships within the Pentateuch rather than some archaic, pre-CBH features and sources. Mathematical tests also limit what esoteric meanings the census numbers might have.</p> Aaron Adair Copyright (c) 2025 Aaron Adair https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://tidsskrift.dk/hiphilnovum/article/view/152021 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200