[b-hebrew] CGN YHWH, C)RZ MZRIM
James Read
J.Read-2 at sms.ed.ac.uk
Sun May 24 05:42:38 EDT 2009
Quoting K Randolph <kwrandolph at gmail.com>:
> James:
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:10 PM, James Read <J.Read-2 at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Yeah,
>>
>> it's been making me wonder, though. Whether this could be construed in any
>> way as a hint of the author's perceived location of the Garden of Eden.
>>
>
> No, not when he likens it to Egypt as well.
I suppose it would be more clear if the author had written KGN YHWH
WKGN MCRYM.
Do you know of any other passages which follow a similar linguistic
structure (i.e. using K... twice but without the W conjunction) that
are demonstrably parallel in a limited way yet distinctly physically
different as entities geographical or otherwise?
>
>>
>> Also, something else it made me think about. It makes the author come
>> across as somebody familiar with Egypt as a well watered pasture land.
>>
>
> More than a pasture land. Abraham had just been there, at least to the
> northern, more fruitful area, and saw what it was like.
>
Sure.
James Christian
>>
>>
>> James Christian
>>
>> Karl W. Randolph.
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