Atbash

Word ATBASH
Character 6
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This is about Jeremiah's use of a game called atbash ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

Running lb qmy through the atbash key, you get ksdym, which is the Hebrew word for the Chaldeans, a synonym in Jeremiah's day for Babylonians. ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

Here the atbash cipher Sheshach is given in parallelism with Babylon, so the meaning cannot be missed. ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

Scholars have observed that Jeremiah actually uses atbash at several places in his text. ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

The name of the game, atbash, comes from the first two letters on the left side of this chart. ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

Applying the atbash key to ssk, the word becomes bbl, the Hebrew name for Babylon. ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

So to illustrate using an English example, if I said "He's a real sty," applying the atbash to sty you would get "ham," giving the real thrust of the insult. ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

Hoskisson opines that any atbash that may have originally been present probably would not have survived the translation process into English, concluding his piece with the following sentence: "Too bad." ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

Given that Jeremiah was a contemporary of Lehi and his family, one wonders whether there might be some atbash in the text of the BoM. ❋ Kevin Barney (2010)

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