Analisi componenziale del lessema צרעת in EA

This study analyzes the occurrences of the lexeme צרעת erroneously understood as ‘leprosy’. In fact, Hansen’s disease does not appear before its importation by the troops of Alexander the Great in the Indian countryside of 326 BCE. The analyzed lexeme in the various functional languages is therefore a hypernym of many dermatological diseases. In EB1 it only connotes scabies, but in EB3 the diseases are so many and so complex that only occasionally it is possible to establish an intelligence. Both in the juridical-cultic language and in the languages of Qumran it became necessary to evaluate each single occurrence, since these were concentrated in precise occourrence in order to establish a first variety of the diseases connoted by the lexeme .צרעת