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  • From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
  • To: lizfried AT umich.edu, b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Isaiah 40:22 - Circle of the earth
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:21:55 EDT

In a message dated 7/18/2002 11:58:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lizfried AT umich.edu writes:


For example, do you agree that this usage refers to the
> "promised land?":
No. The promised land is Israel.
That's the whole point, in fact.
That's why Isaiah refers to YHWH as the god of Israel.
Israel is both Judah and Samaria combined, the Southern Levant.
Isaiah doesn't refer to the God of Judah, or of the Jews.
Yet, while in Babylon the people refered to themselves as Jews
from Judah, and the returnees referred to themselves
as Jews, as did the Jews in Elephantine.
But YHWH is the god of Israel even in Ezra (Ezra 1:3).


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