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  • From: peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re[2]: OT Trnity ?
  • Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 23:14:50 -0500



Dear Menachem,

Surely the use of periphrastic expressions in place of the name of God
was an encouragement towards personification of attributes of God
rather than a way to avoid it? Or perhaps rather, as suggested in the
original posting in this thread, it was a part of or a precursor of
the movements towards personification, some of which were eventually
rejected by the Jewish leadership as heretical and forced to go their
own way.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: OT Trnity ?
Author: mbrody AT earthling.net at internet
Date: 03/03/1999 11:33


<snip>
If I may add:
We find frequently in the Targumim translation of the name of G-d as:
LIFNAY [before, in the presence ] of G-d
KAVOD [glory, honor] of G-d
as well as MAMAR [statement, word] of G-d.

All of these additions appear to form a consistent attempt to avoid an
impression of HAGSHAMAH [personification ?] by the unsophisticated listner
to the original Hebrew Biblical verses, apparently a serious problem in the
first century, if we judge from the sects that splintered away from Judaism
in this period.

Menachem
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Menachem Brody
Machon Helkat Hasadeh
Elon Moreh
mbrody AT earthling.net
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