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Mauro Biglino claims that the term "Elyon" is not an absolute superlative. Is that right?
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He claims that, but it must be noted that ancient Hebrew has no special forms either for the comparative or superlative of any adjective. All adjectives have only the basic form, e.g. there is no "good/better/best" but only "good" (tov), the comparative and superlative meanings are derived from the context. In the case of Elyon (whose basic meaning is "high") it's a superlative because in the view of the biblical authors there's no other elohim like Yhwh, the many elohim of other peoples are considered just inert idols made by man. For example Psalm 83:18 says "that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yhwh, are Elyon over all the earth". When in the 3rd-2nd century BC the Jews translated the Bible into Greek they rendered Elyon as Hypsistos which is indeed a superlative.
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