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Re: Qohelet

From: Kim Fleming <kfleming AT wctel.net>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Qohelet
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:28:17 -0500

> And why the feminine form of the verb in 7:27 -- <<amerah qohelet>>? As
far
> as I can make out, the textual evidence seems to support this reading,
> rather than <<amar qohelet>>, which one would have expected.

In _A Time to Tear Down & A Time to Build Up_ Michael Fox says that the two
words should be "redivided to read 'mr hqhlt, as in 12:8."

Kim

Qohelet, Translation Officer - Bible Society of South Africa, 01/16/2003
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