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Re: Job 13:15

From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Job 13:15
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 06:24:27 -0700

Lance,
> The very same situation occurs in Isaiah 49:5 and I looked at some
> pictures of the Dead Sea Scrolls to see how that rendered it. It had the
> possessive, but, while doing so, I noticed that the negative was spelled
> Lamed-Vav-Aleph (verse 10). I'd never seen it spelled like that before, can
> any Scroll Scholars help with an explanation?

It's a plene spelling, with the vav serving as a vowel. This kind of
spelling abounds in the scrolls.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated." C. S. Lewis

Job 13:15, Robert Vining, 10/07/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Job 13:15, Ben Crick, 10/07/2000
- Re: Job 13:15, Wrinsewind, 10/08/2000
- Re: Job 13:15, Charles David Isbell, 10/08/2000
- Re: Job 13:15, Dave Washburn, 10/08/2000
- Re: Job 13:15, Reginald Wallace Ponder, Jr., 10/10/2000
- Re: Job 13:15, Ben Crick, 10/10/2000
- Re: Job 13:15, Rodney K. Duke, 10/12/2000