Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dan Wagner <Dan.Wagner AT datastream.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liz Fried [mailto:lizfried AT umich.edu]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 19:14
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: singular and plural for Isaiah's servant
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Wagner [mailto:Dan.Wagner AT datastream.net]
> > 
> > > 3rd-I doesn't like Cyrus being called the Servant, Messiah, etc.
> > 
> > OK, this explains my posted question: "[Why would your 
> > "Trito-Isaiah" insert
> > it, anyway?]." But if you're right, he didn't do a good job 
> > editing the text
> > of Isa. 45:1 where Cyrus is called God's "messiah."
> Redactors don't subtract, they just add.

Who imposed that rule upon them? How can we know that? Are we at liberty to
make them do whatever we want? Why wouldn't they want to subtract to
accomplish their subtle agenda? What could prevent them?

(Obviously i don't accept RC, at least not on this kind of a theological
agenda-based level.)

Dan Wagner