From: Torsten
Message: 67338
Date: 2011-04-10
>Well, the institution could have could have arrived in Germany with Bastarnian 'refugees' taking over Germany in the 1st century BCE
> >>Oh yeah, Biblic _shofet_ (shopet) might be the
> >>missing link!
> >
> >The problem is I don't know how early this occurs in Hebrew
> >http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/67203
> >I haven't found any online Hebrew etymological dictionaries which
> >would clear that up.
>
> Not only this. An additional problem (actually the main one) is:
> if shofet > Schöffe, then in which way did it enter the German
> language? Because it must have had a non-clergy path (I mean
> the Church). One traditional way was... slang, cf. "Rotwelsch".
> But for Rotwelsch, 13th c. "Feme"-courts & schöffes seem to have
> been too early for shofet as a loanie from that "socio"lect...
>
> #