Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bill Rea <cctr114 AT its.canterbury.ac.nz>]

B-Hebrewers,

I was translating Job 38:31 and 32 this morning. All of the other
translations I examined referred to Pleiades, Orion, and the 
the Bear. They differed a bit on Mazzaroth (I'm working from
memory, please forgive me if that's not quite what's there).
My questions are:-

1) How certain are we that these are indeed constellations?
2) How certain are we that they correspond to the constellations
of Pleiades, Orion, Ursa Major or Minor?

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