Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)]

On Thu 10 Dec 98 (14:00:06), lmartin AT vol.com wrote:
> Please translate Joel 3:5.
> My specific question: Is the RSV justified in separating the last
> relative clause by means of "shall be."
> It reads: "and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls."
> Therefore, the RSV makes 3:5 say two things: 1) in Jerusalem shall be
> escape, 2) in the survivors shall be called ones.

 KiY B:HaR-TsiYYoWN uWBiYRuWShaLeM
 For in Mount Zion  and in Jerusalem

 TiH:YeH        P:LeY+aH        Ka'a:SheR 'aMaR YHWH
 there shall be a deliverance,  according as YHWH has said,

 uWBaSS:RiYDiYM                'a:SheR YHWH QoRe'.
 and in the surviving remnant  whom YHWH is calling.

 In Joel 2:32[3:5] we have the Participle QoRe' where perhaps we might
 expect the Imperfect (shall call) or the Perfect (has called). But the
 Particple forms a periphrastic future after TiH:YeH. You might expect the
 TiH:YeH to be repeated; but Hebrew is an economical language, as you know!

 The ones who have called upon the name of YHWH (1:19, 2:17) will be safe
 even in the eye of the storm. They alone will escape, or survive, the
 coming storm which will consume the offenders (3:2[4:2]).  Root PaLa+
 (from which P:LeY+aH) can mean "fugitives" who had "run away" in flight,
 as well as "survivors" who simply sat still and survived: Joshua 8:22;
 Jeremiah 42:17.

 Paul quotes Joel 2:32a in Romans 10:13, indicating that Gentiles as well as
 Jews will be among those escaping; and of course Peter quotes it in Acts
 2:21.

 Y:HoWShaPa+ is not to be taken as a proper name (Jehoshaphat), but as a
 statement "YHWH has judged". The "valley" `eMeQ could be the GeY-HiNNoWM,
 the place where King Josiah "defiled Topheth" where abominations had been
 committed (2 Kings 23:10). IMHO that is. WDYT?

 ShaLoWM
 Ben
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