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RE: Referent elohim Gen 5:24

From: "Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>
To: "'c stirling bartholomew'" <cc.constantine AT worldnet.att.net>, "'Biblical Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Referent elohim Gen 5:24
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:58:31 -0500

> James C. VanderKam* suggests that in Gen. 5:24 the referent
> of ha)elohim differs from the referent of elohim (end of verse).
> VanderKam bases this on the use of ha)elohim for Angels.

This of course is how 1 Enoch 12:1 and Jubilees 4:21-23 interpret it (I
expect VanderKam refers to these texts to support his suggestion).

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies,
Biblical Field (Early Judaism major)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca
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Referent elohim Gen 5:24, c stirling bartholomew, 11/21/2001
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