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  • From: TedBro AT aol.com
  • To: yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] ANE Myth and Torah
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:23:03 EST

Yitzhak:

You wrote:

>> In contrast Deut
32:8-9 are much less open
to reinterpretation, specifically because they build up - Elyon
divides the nations among the
children of El, Y gets his share in Jacob. This is why the LXX and MT
saw the need to actually
change the text -- because the poem is in general rather open to a
polytheistic world view but
in these specific verses, it practically cries out.

Could you please elaborate on this? I don't see any hierarchy at all in
these verses, just different names for the same deity, as used throughout the

poem and the tanakh as a whole.

CHELEQ signifies a sacrificial portion especially dedicated to God. There
is no implication that other portions are dedicated to other deities. Where
is there evidence of multiple deities in these verses, as opposed to
multiple names for the One Deity?

Further, even if some of the language is reminiscent of Canaanite
literature, the Bible writer would not adopt the Canaanite world view when
quoting
Canaanite text but would transform it. The parallel between the Ugaritic
poem of Baal as Rider of the Clouds and Psalm 29 is illustrative. The
Psalmist
need not have been a Baal worshipper to borrow language or motif. The
adaptation is, rather, a way of denying Baal, and saying that the true God
of
all things including fertility, rain and cloud is YHWH, not Baal. "Yahweh
will rule forever and ever."

Peace,
Ted Brownstein


In a message dated 3/1/2010 12:55:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com writes:

In contrast Deut
32:8-9 are much less open
to reinterpretation, specifically because they build up - Elyon
divides the nations among the
children of El, Y gets his share in Jacob. This is why the LXX and MT
saw the need to actually
change the text -- because the poem is in general rather open to a
polytheistic world view but
in these specific verses, it practically cries out.




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