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  • From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: MELEK HA(WOLAM
  • Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:27:33 -0400


I think the word olam can connote eternity in space as well as in time.
Futher, a colleague of mine at NYU is writing a dissertation in which
he argues it is used ocasionally in the HB to indicate the
underworld, the world of the dead. I don't know what his references
for this are.

Liz





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