Biblical Hebrew Forum

["T.L. Phillips" <tiphillips AT infoave.net>]

Lampstand...stand for lamps!  What a concept! ---Jus' funnin'.  Shouldn't
M-norah be understood as "a place" for a ner or nerot? Some years back when
I was looking at the menorah passages, I came to the realization that they
were indeed just lamps sitting on a (special) stand and could have light
"facing" a direction. I was also impressed by the botanical terms used to
describe the stand. About a year later, I read an article (by Judith
Frankel?) in BAR about how English translations didn't do this justice (from
an naturalist at Ne'ot Kedumim in Israel) and sent her my translation. Then
I ran across Carol Meyer's dissertation on the Tabernacle Menorah. (Sorry,
at school [public school, that is] and away from my correspondence, texts,
and books). You would find it interesting, I'm sure.

Thinking of Debbie Boone now for some weird reason.

Tim


>Friends,
>
>Re Num 8:2 and the menorah design.  The H reads _beha(alotka )et hannerot
>)el mul Peney hammenorah ya)iyru $ib(at hannerot_ "when you mount(?) the
>lamps, it will be to the front face of the menorah that the seven lamps
>will shine."  Does this suggest moveable and/or adjustable lamps having a
>design which is "pointable" or "directable"?  I have never seen a menorah
>model with such a feature, have you?
>
>Bryan
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